Date: 03/07/2012

Number: 1

I was digging and cleaning out a messy back yard and along came a Robin Red Brest, using my newly turned soil for worm hunting, as the days went by and I began grass seeding he joined me every day eating my seeds and resting on my fence. Then in my car-port he began building a nest, I first saw him with a 2 inch wide and a yard long piece of polythene ribbon, he kept dropping it and did not give up with his endeavors, he also neatly rolled tissue into 2 inch lengths, and started building, the ledge he was attempting to build on was wobbly and narrow, so I got my Husband to place 2 pieces of 2" X 2" and I cut up some parcel string into about 4" to 6" lengths and left them on the ground and he finished the nest in about two days, now Mum is sitting up in the nest. To day a half a blue shell landed on my head in the back yard, I had never seen a Robins' egg but I guessed it was, so I checked out "Robin's Eggs" on Google and up came your site and pictures. I am worried because the egg shell dropped on me in my back year and the nest is in the front under the car-port, do you think the baby hatched, it is too difficult a place for other bigger birds to get to to poach, although he did have to see off a Blue Jay during his Building Project.

Fort Worth, TX

Latitude: 32.8 Longitude: -97.3

Observed by: paddy
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