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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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  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

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

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    MINI PEEPERS!!!

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

  4. 4.

    Eric U.

    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

  7. 7.

    Sab

    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.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

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

  12. 12.

    ruemara

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

  14. 14.

    VeniceRiley

    *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.

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    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

    @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

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

  22. 22.

    MomSense

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

  25. 25.

    p.a.

    @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.

  27. 27.

    C Stars

    @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

    @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

    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]

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

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

  33. 33.

    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 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.

  36. 36.

    TenguPhule

    @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

    @MomSense:

    The Hunger Games.

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

  40. 40.

    TenguPhule

    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

    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

    @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.

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    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

    @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

    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

    @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

    @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…

  53. 53.

    Aleta

    @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

    @JPL:

    Breaking News.. Trump is a con man.

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

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    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

    @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

    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

    @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.

  61. 61.

    catclub

    @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.

  63. 63.

    catclub

    @TenguPhule

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

    But nobody else except debt collectors think is beneficial.

  65. 65.

    plato

    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

    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

  68. 68.

    plato

    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

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

  71. 71.

    jimmiraybob

    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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