Nesting

Gestation is the new theme here at our place.

We had a pair of robins decide to build a nest on our meter box, and Lady Robin, as we have come to call her, laid 4 eggs. And I cannot begin to express the vivid color of blue these eggs are, they are amazing!

Tim took a couple of quick shots the other night when he was grilling our dinner.

This was actually quite a feat since Daddy Robin is quite territorial, and most often hostile about it. Every time we go out the door they both get in the cottonwood tree and chitter angrily at us until we go back in.

And the poor dogs get swooped at when they go out. It's an all out riot in the back yard when Pisty goes out to chase squirrels, and Daddy Robin is chasing away other birds, and then turns on Pisty. One would think he might figure out that they have a good tag team nest protection program, but Daddy Robin is an equal opportunity swoop attacker.

At any rate, we should have little open mouthed babies in the next week or so, and I have been supplementing their diet of bugs with berries after some online research.

I am sensitive to Lady Robin's cause.

Next up, what we are doing to our nest......