How wonderful! Great Robins are so trusting and that you got a good photo too. I've had something trying to build a nest in a temporary pile, although think it abandoned the idea after the strong wind. I use the Birdnet app, it's great for bird song. So think it may be a Wren as that's been very vocal and wasn't around last year.
Actually those eggs must have hatched a few days ago but the little birdies were hidden by mummy Robin... This morning I took advantage of her brief absence to take a pic. She soon came back...
Update to the Robin "saga", in motion for a change. Pics taken over a period of about 25 minutes showing mum Robin sitting over nest, then gone shopping, then back home. It's not obvious but there seems to be un un-hatched egg remaining (or just an empty eggshell?)
We’re just watching some Robin fledglings being fed by Mum and Dad. It seems very early, don’t think we have ever seen them in April. I thought I was mistaken when I thought I saw a fledging a day or two ago
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Today went to check the resident Robin's nest as usual... only to find that there was not a trace of the little chicks; only one un-hatched egg left. What might have happened? They were certainly too young and featherless to have flown away. I suspect a cat (although they are unwelcome and rare in our garden) or what?
Note.- The white thing to the right of the un-hatched egg is not an eggshell, but a petal of a flower of the Akebia quinata which covers the pergola. It's now in full bloom and produces a lovely scent in that part of the garden.
The empty nest
Akebia quinata ‘Cream-flowered’ flower, close-up. Life goes on...
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I've had something trying to build a nest in a temporary pile, although think it abandoned the idea after the strong wind.
I use the Birdnet app, it's great for bird song. So think it may be a Wren as that's been very vocal and wasn't around last year.
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham