Daily Birding 📷 131
American Robin
This robin has an insect in its beak and is still searching for something else to catch.
I have seen this a few times, a bird will hunt for insects, snatch one, and continue to catch them until it feels as though it has enough.
This behavior is pretty characteristic of a parent looking after young. American Robins (as well as other birds) will have multiple clutches in a year, one after the other. Both the mother and the father will help raise the young.
Males and females can be differentiated, though sometimes it is difficult to tell. In their breeding plumage, males have a brick red front whereas females have more of a rusty orange-red front. I am pretty sure the one in the photograph is a female, but it is hard to say unless they are seen together. :)
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Last year a robin nested outside my window on the downspout coming from the roof. Ended up being a pretty bad place for a nest, the eggs were snatched by a crow! I saw it happen while I was mowing the lawn. In 5 seconds all that work making a nest was for nothing! Nature.
Wow! That must have been crazy to witness! Crows, like most creatures, are opportunists. I wonder if it needed that protein in its diet or it was for a different reason. I'm sure the robins made a new nest shortly after somewhere else.
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Nice shot. I have a soft spot for Robins. When I was about 10 a nest blew down in a storm and we were able to save one of the young. I would put the box outside during the day and at night it was in our sun room.
What amazed me was that one of the parents hung around and when it was time he/she actually fledged the young. Everyone had told me the parent wouldn't have anything to do with the young because I had handled it. I guess they were wrong. Peeper came around a few times after that but then was lost to the wild. LOL! I'll never forget that experience.
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