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Babies Update

by John Cole|  May 7, 20195:53 pm| 71 Comments

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There were five eggs originally, but I only see three mouths. I didn’t want to disturb them so I just stuck the camera above the nest, took a bunch of snaps, and got away so mom and dad would not freak out, so the other two may be in there somewhere.

I couldn’t get a snap in time while I was sitting outside earlier and saw her, but mom had a red chest.

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  1. 1.

    Betty Cracker

    May 7, 2019 at 5:56 pm

    Awwwww! The sweet little things. :)

  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

    May 7, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    Our robin keeps sitting in the nest but there don’t seem to be any eggs or babies.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    May 7, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    MINI PEEPERS!!!

    The other two may have been duds. It’s not that unusual.

  4. 4.

    Eric U.

    May 7, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    on a similar note, I think the birds that always nest on our front porch have nested in our rain gutters. Hope not, but I just saw a bird fly up really close to my window

  5. 5.

    kindness

    May 7, 2019 at 6:00 pm

    Robins?

  6. 6.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 7, 2019 at 6:04 pm

    How are you keeping them from becoming a snack for Steve? Because they are calling out to him.

  7. 7.

    Sab

    May 7, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    Years ago I got some of those Audubon toy birds that sing the appropriate bird call when you squeeze them. I was shocked to discover that it’s the robin making those horrible cheery chirping calls at 4:30 every morning. I still like robins, but STFU until dawn.

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 7, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I think Steve is strictly a backyard cat.

  9. 9.

    Roger Moore

    May 7, 2019 at 6:08 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    How are you keeping them from becoming a snack for Steve?

    By locating the nest somewhere Steve is too lazy to climb.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 7, 2019 at 6:08 pm

    @Sab: Seconded. I always know I’ve been up too damn late when the birds start their daily racket.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 7, 2019 at 6:11 pm

    Aww, baby birds! So cute and needy and greedy!

  12. 12.

    ruemara

    May 7, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Really cute babies. Did you think about getting a camera to watch the nest?

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    May 7, 2019 at 6:20 pm

    Awe ??
    That sounds so precious, Cole??

  14. 14.

    VeniceRiley

    May 7, 2019 at 6:21 pm

    *peeppeeppeep* Spring is in the air! We just had a rattlesnake in the neighborhood kill a neighbor’s dog. No one has seen it since, but it makes me worry for the bunnies I see hopping around. in other news: Boss says no PTO will be granted until Sept. Imma die.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    May 7, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    @ruemara:
    Cornell University has a bird nest cam. It’s really addicting. And awesome, watching life and nature progress.?

  16. 16.

    jl

    May 7, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    Thanks for very cute hatchling pic.

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    May 7, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    Fuck – my step nephew’s school in Colorado has an active shooter. My stepsister is a teacher at another school in the district that is on lock down and can’t get home. He happened to be home sick today, for which we are all feeling very grateful and also guilty for feeling that way.

    Fuck the fucking NRA

  18. 18.

    C Stars

    May 7, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    @MomSense: Thank god he was home. I also have a nephew in Denver; this is the second time in under a month I’ve had to google a school’s name to make sure my 10 year old nephew wasn’t in the line of fire. Fucking NRA scum.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    May 7, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    @rikyrah: Years ago someone on this very site linked to Audubon’s Osprey Nest on Hog Island Maine. I’ve been watching ever since.

  20. 20.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 7, 2019 at 6:41 pm

    @MomSense: This sucks. And, yes, fuck the fuckin’ NRA.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    May 7, 2019 at 6:42 pm

    @MomSense: yup

  22. 22.

    MomSense

    May 7, 2019 at 6:46 pm

    @C Stars:
    They live in Littleton. The kids are too young to remember Columbine but their parents certainly do.

  23. 23.

    joel hanes

    May 7, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    @kindness:

    House finches.

    Cole has been informed multiple times. It doesn’t seem to take.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    May 7, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    @joel hanes: You do understand that he doesn’t always read his blog, don’t you.

  25. 25.

    p.a.

    May 7, 2019 at 6:52 pm

    @Sab: @mrmoshpotato: Ever have a mocker outside your bedroom window decide a full moon meant it’s daytime? (In nice open window sleeping weather) Yeesh…

    If you have a bluetooth speaker now is a great time to use the Cornell website to attract the locals to your yard. See what you can draw in, but don’t overdo it and disturb nesting.

  26. 26.

    JPL

    May 7, 2019 at 6:52 pm

    Rumor has it that Michael Cohen fixed Falwell’s pool boy problem.

  27. 27.

    C Stars

    May 7, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    @MomSense: And there was the Columbine copycat situation just a couple of weeks ago, and the shooting in North Carolina a few days ago. Incredible that this has become our new normal, sending our children into mortal peril every day AT SCHOOL. It’s just a thing now. Ghastly.

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    May 7, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    @C Stars:

    That UNC student who sacrificed himself to save his peers – his sweet face makes me cry just thinking about it. I can’t believe we just keep letting this happen.

  29. 29.

    C Stars

    May 7, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    Just before I heard the awful news about Denver, I was going to post that there are these two “Peregrin Cams” here tracking two chicks that hatched about a week ago; everyone’s going gaga over it. There’s also a FB page about it, if you’re into that kind of thing.

    [edited to remove dumb links]

  30. 30.

    C Stars

    May 7, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    @MomSense: It’s really starting to feel like some kind of ritual sacrifice.

  31. 31.

    chopper

    May 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    the nest is too close to the house.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    I’ve never had a problem falling asleep to the songs of the night birds.

  33. 33.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    May 7, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    Do squirrels eat eggs? Surprised one the other day poking around under the eves where somebody is nesting. I think in the past that nest has been Mourning Doves.

    A week or so ago I found a beautiful robins egg shell, empty, with two suspiciously snake like punctures in the shell.

    It’s a jungle out there.

    Our new kitty at least is not contributing to the carnage as she is strictly indoors. In fact I could wish there was a little more carnage as both the kitty and the beagle tell me there’s a mouse under the stove but nobody is doing anything about it.

  34. 34.

    JPL

    May 7, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    @chopper: lol

  35. 35.

    MomSense

    May 7, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    @C Stars:

    The Hunger Games.

  36. 36.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Do squirrels eat eggs? Surprised one the other day poking around under the eves where somebody is nesting. I think in the past that best has been Mourning Doves.

    Yes, they will.

    Free food is free food.

    Do not google horse eating chicks.

  37. 37.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 7:04 pm

    @MomSense:

    The Hunger Games.

    Aztec Tributes. At least in the Hunger Games, the victims usually had a chance to run or fight back.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    May 7, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Ah, the soothing, dulcet tones of Alison Steele.

    ;)

  39. 39.

    Aleta

    May 7, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    What a pretty and down to earth picture.

  40. 40.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 7:10 pm

    Pompeo makes sudden, unscheduled visit to Baghdad amid tensions with Iran

    So he stood up the Germans to piss off the Iraqis.

    Seems Legit.

  41. 41.

    JPL

    May 7, 2019 at 7:10 pm

    Breaking News.. Trump is a con man. He had a billion dollars in losses and didn’t pay taxes for a decade. He’s a phony and I’m shocked. just shocked

    according to the nytimes

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    May 7, 2019 at 7:11 pm

    @TenguPhule:
    Yeah, we’ve had a combo of squirrels, rats (the day and night shifts) and crows get our last several mourning dove nests. A damn shame because we once had one or two successful hatches a year, and I miss them because their tree is right outside the bedroom. Nothing more calming than cooing doves.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    May 7, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    @JPL:
    Should that be BILL-YUN DOLLARS! ?

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me, Mitch McConnell, your ears! I come to bury Robert Mueller, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives on cable, whereas the good is often interred deep in the redacted portions of special counsel reports.

    I am sure he is an honorable man and made an honorable report.

    Yet is not also Attorney General William Barr an honorable man? Which is why it is so upsetting that these Democrat senators — honorable men, which is why I am referring to them with this slightly pejorative adjective — want to accuse him of perjury! Nay, more than that: They would say he did not accurately portray the conclusions of this report.

    But this report is done. It did not bear the bad news the Democrats did hope, and they are racked with grief. If I delighted in their grief, I would delight in the sight of them now. But I take no pleasure in thwarting them. I merely do it, at every possible turn, as a painful duty.

    Friends, Romans, countrymen: Case closed!

  45. 45.

    Mandalay

    May 7, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    @JPL: Faaaark!…..

    The numbers show that in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings. They continued to lose money every year, totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.

    In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer

  46. 46.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    It began with a traffic violation and ended with a woman pulling a gator from her yoga pants

    The usual suspects.

    The driver, Michael Cody Clemons, told officers that he and his passenger, Ariel Michelle Marchan-Le Quire, were gathering the wildlife together, according to an incident report.

    There are some animals that people are simply not allowed to possess in Florida, or at the very least, that people can’t have unless they have a permit. Bears, tigers, rhinoceroses and crocodiles are illegal. Cougars, howler monkeys, wolves and cassowaries are fine as long as a permit is obtained. Particularly applicable in this instance: Florida law does not allow the capture or possession of poisonous reptiles — copperheads, eastern diamondbacks, coral snakes to name a few — unless there’s a permit involved.

    So the Charlotte County deputy asked Clemons and Marchan-Le Quire if they would open their backpacks and show their haul — just to make sure they didn’t have anything illegal, the report says.

    Clemons, 22, had clothes and other personal items in his bag.

    Marchan-Le Quire, 25, grabbed her backpack from the floor next to her feet and unzipped it to show 43 small turtles piled inside, the report says.

    “Anything else?” a second deputy asked.

    It was then that Marchan-Le Quire reached into her yoga pants and tugged out a foot-long alligator.

  47. 47.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    @Mandalay:

    Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer

    I think we can remove nearly. As of now it is a certainty.

  48. 48.

    C Stars

    May 7, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    @MomSense: @TenguPhule: More horrific than both in some ways, right? I almost can’t look at the expression on the kids’ faces–they know exactly what’s happened, and they’re permanently traumatized. Someone has just tried to kill them–a lot of them. I don’t know that fiction or history can match the particular state of awfulness and stupid that has brought about this state of things. Not that there haven’t been worse times in history, but this particular situation, the random and yet unceasing gunning down of schoolchildren…I dunno…

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 7, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    @JPL:

    I’m shocked. just shocked

    Check your email when you have a chance.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    May 7, 2019 at 7:21 pm

    @TenguPhule:
    Damn, Florida Woman, going for gold!

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    May 7, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    This California tale of water intrigue is too complicated for me to grok in one gulp. Wish Ranch and Syrup were still around to provide some insight.

  52. 52.

    Roger Moore

    May 7, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Do squirrels eat eggs?

    Yes, they do. Just about everyone eats eggs if they can get them.

  53. 53.

    Aleta

    May 7, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    @JPL: He’ll tweet some shocking words about a woman to horrify the press, and Barr will continue hopping around slowly like his wing is broken to divert them from their responsibility—to focus on the pileup of evidence in the Mueller report and on his indifference to protecting a democracy.

  54. 54.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 7, 2019 at 7:44 pm

    @JPL:

    Breaking News.. Trump is a con man.

    Welcome to the 1980s. Not sure if I’m born yet, but welcome nonetheless.

  55. 55.

    Steeplejack

    May 7, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Ha! I knew that had to be Alexandra Petri. A distinctive voice.

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 7, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    Kyle Cheney
    @kyledcheney
    Two Judiciary Dems, after meeting with Nadler, say contempt hearing and vote on Barr is *still on* for tomorrow.

    “All systems go,” says Rep. RASKIN
    3:52 PM · May 7, 2019

  57. 57.

    mad citizen

    May 7, 2019 at 7:56 pm

    @MomSense: Thought of a t-shirt this afternoon: “I’m sick AF of school murders and your guns”

    Glad to hear your loved one is OK. Our best friends’ two sons, and our godsons, attend this school, and are also OK.

    madder than normal at the moment.

  58. 58.

    TenguPhule

    May 7, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    Welcome to Hell, America

    .

    For decades, debt collectors have relied on a limited set of communication tools: landlines and the U.S. mail. Now they are finding increasingly personal ways to reach the millions of Americans regulators say have been contacted by debt collectors. Some debt collectors worry that these contacts fall into a legal gray area because the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was written 40 years ago and doesn’t directly address digital communications.

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday proposed rules that would give the industry the go-ahead to send consumers unlimited amounts of texts and emails, accelerating a trend the watchdog bureau says could be beneficial for everyone.

  59. 59.

    MomSense

    May 7, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    @mad citizen:

    I’m glad yours are ok, too. I’m so GD angry. One of the students has died. Apparently two students attacked one of the shooters when he entered their classroom. It’s just so horrifying.

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    May 7, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @TenguPhule:
    Yoga pants + gator

    I just can’t???

  61. 61.

    catclub

    May 7, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    @Mandalay:

    In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer

    There are strong suspicions that there are financial shenanigans which allow Trump to claim the losses on many years of tax forms, but there are no actual losses. Somebody holds a claim that they are not carrying out against Trump. Why, in 1995? I have no idea.

  62. 62.

    catclub

    May 7, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    @rikyrah: maybe rubber band/velcro around the snout?

  63. 63.

    catclub

    May 7, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    @TenguPhule

    : accelerating a trend the watchdog bureau says could be beneficial for everyone.

    But nobody else except debt collectors think is beneficial.

  64. 64.

    catclub

    May 7, 2019 at 8:52 pm

    @trollhattan: But can they make a movie about it as good as Chinatown? Forget it, Jake.

  65. 65.

    plato

    May 7, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    Hillary Clinton told you all Trump doesn't pay taxes in a 2016 presidential debate. He admitted it onstage and said it made him smart. https://t.co/8gpZm2HMm6— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) May 8, 2019

    fynyt with your too little too late ‘investigative pieces’.

  66. 66.

    plato

    May 7, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    Chuck Schumer: "Mitch McConnell played a leading role in preventing election security from being made known in 2016. He's played a leading role in preventing any bill from coming to the floor. He should be ashamed of himself with that speech."Via The Hill pic.twitter.com/qMe3a0hG8c— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 8, 2019

  67. 67.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 7, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    @TenguPhule: There are horse eating chicks? Those chicks must be pretty large.

  68. 68.

    plato

    May 7, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    Sign of the Times: Rep. John Lewis Admits He’s Less Hopeful in 2019 Than He Was on Bloody Sunday.

    If there’s anyone who can serve as a barometer on how messed up things have gotten in this country, it would be U.S. House Rep. John Lewis. And according to the Civil Rights trailblazer known for getting into good trouble, the U.S. is now in “deep trouble.”

    In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Lewis admitted he was less hopeful now than he was during the Civil Rights Movement.

    “I hate to say it, but I think we’re in deep trouble,” Lewis told Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith.

    Even though Lewis’s responses clearly displayed some measure of (unnerving) despondency, he maintained that it was important to not lose hope.

    To that end, Lewis also spoke about H.R. 1, a voting rights bill that, if passed, would be a gamechanger. The legislation would ensure automatic voter registration, make Election Day a holiday, end gerrymandering, and add protections for early voting. The bill is a clear response to efforts throughout the years to chip away at the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  69. 69.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 7, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    @TenguPhule: Mulvaney must go, and everything he’s done be reversed, and these parasites are taxed for the expense.

  70. 70.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 7, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: “Race track owners demand ban on Peeps, say they spook the ponies”

  71. 71.

    jimmiraybob

    May 8, 2019 at 12:36 am

    Spring is the best for the dance that I do with my local robins as they build their nests and start their new families. I rake the leaves that fall in the spring from and oak tree that doesn’t know that civilized trees drop them in the fall. This produces a buffet of worms and other delectables and the robins swoop in immediately (I should mention that we talk quite a bit during this exchange). They also follow me when I cut the grass, which during the first few months of spring-summer grows quit rapidly. The rest of the gang seem focused primarily on the feeder and the sunflower seeds. Fun times.

    This is always good for some sanity.

    John., good luck with the new batch. Or, should I say new additions to the family.

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