Robin’s Nest

There is a nice tree that sits just 6 or 8 feet from the front of our house. The boys love to climb in the tree and have been doing so since they were three years old. They call it “The Giving Tree” (named after the tree in the book, The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein). At this point they can confidently climb through all the branches– even the highest ones. Given how often they are in the tree I was amazed to discover that a robin had made her nest there this spring. I often saw her coming and going from the nest while the boys played all around it. We were even more amazed to just recently realize that baby birds are now alive in the nest. The mama robin comes and goes to feed her babies. At one point when she was out to find food, Kyle and Owen were able to climb high into the tree and peer into the nest. We hadn’t known how many baby birds there were. The boys were delighted to find that there were two. “Twins!” I was so curious myself that I managed to climb up into the tree with the boys and my camera to get a photo of what was tucked inside the nest (click photos to enlarge). Meanwhile, Meera just looked on from the yard by the tree, content as usual.