growing, growing...

They are getting so big! Every day they look so different. It has been wonderful to watch them - and we even love being yelled at by the parents whenever we try to walk into our, I mean 'their' yard.

Fun facts::

• A female robin builds a nest out of grass and small twigs held together with mud
• The eyes of nestlings open when they are about five days old
• Robins usually live for six years, but can live up to 14 years
• Earthworms are a favorite food
• Other soft-bodied invertebrates they eat include caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers
• Fruits and berries account for 60 percent of robins’ diet (I can verify that they love our strawberries)
• Parents feed their young in the nest until they are ready to leave it at 14 to 16 days of age
• Baby robins cannot fly for the first few days after they jump from the nest
• Within a day or two their wings grow stronger and they begin to take short flights
• Their parents feed them (even on the ground) until they have learned to feed themselves

We have been reading about the life cycle of Robins. Here are a few books we are reading now:




A Nest Full of Eggs












The Robins in Your Backyard