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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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I watched robins build a nest in the small tree right outside our back door after all the recent rain. There is plenty of wet pliable grass and plant stems in a pile out back for them to work with, and strangely,they seemed to find a bit of plastic and screen cloth useful. But our back door is very active on weekends and we had some very young boys playing there for an afternoon. So the robins backed off and seem to have abandoned the site. It was interesting watching from the window so very close up to the nest.
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Pope
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Virginia
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Great photos, Gloria. The inside of a freshly built nest isn't something that we get to see very often.
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Rock Star
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Piedmont area NJ USA
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They are wonderful photos but I don't think that last one looks very appealing inside.
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Great Horned Owl
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northeastern MA
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Yes, robins are not the best nest builders. Though if the birds had finished the nest it would have had a more appealing lining but it has been abandoned. I think there was just too much activity so close. I'm wondering if I should remove it.
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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Robins in our yard also made some questionable nest site choices - one in a small evergreen tree only about three feet off the ground, now abandoned after the eggs were destroyed by unknown parties; the other on top of the electric meter on the north end of our house - so far, still occupied. Now that we know of its presence, we do our best to avoid unnecessary activity in that vicinity.
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Heron
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Michigan/detroit
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Heron
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: powell,Ohio
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I found a robin nest on the ground at the base of a tree mother was on the nest I probably would not have seen it if she didn't fly away there were eggs in there to they will nest in the craziest places!
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