Weekend Of and For The Birds- Part 2

Hi everyone! This is Part 2 to my true story "Weekend Of and For The birds. Part 1 can be read here if interested.

Part 1 ended with Sal keeping Hercules inside for 2 days and on day 3, he brought Hercules outside sitting him on tree branches but Hercules still didn't know how to fly. More on Hercules later.

Early Saturday morning my 2 grandsons arrived for a scheduled weekend visit. The oldest just turned 9 years old and the youngest just turned 7. They knew the story about Hercules and were able to meet him. The boys were in awe and learned a lot about robins, thanks to Sal.

The boy's had learned a few things about nature from school, and I have taught them a lot about butterflies and other insects. The next thing they wanted to do was go to the butterfly bush to see if there were any butterflies. But I had something to tell them first.

I knew there was a robin bird's nest in a forsythia bush at my neighbor's fence which is approximately 10 feet away from the butterfly bush.

On June 24th, I had seen the male robin taking nesting material to the female inside the bush.

This is the forsythia bush with the nest inside.

The nest had 2 robin eggs when I took this photo on June 24th and a day later, there were 3.

On July 13th I saw that all 3 eggs had hatched. It takes approximately 14 days for the eggs to hatch after the last egg is laid, so I am guessing that these babies were born on July 9th, making these chicks to be approximately 5 days old when the boys saw them and when I took these photos.

The photos aren't very good because I had to take them fast.

I explained to the boys about the robin's nest and babies, and told them that we had to walk slowly and quietly to the butterfly bush so as not to upset them. The parents didn't make any noise so they must have been out getting food. I told the boys that they could have a quick look at the babies and that we had to leave as soon as the parents came back.

Stay tuned for Part 3.

All photos are my own.

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