Date: 03/10/2001

Number: 1

I placed two nesting boxes for them
today. Many times they nest in the redbuds or maples. And on top of the
wreaths hanging by my door. Last year Mama Robin raised two sets of
nestlings, in the same nest, and there was an Albino in each set. The nest
was easily viewed from our breakfast room window. Our granddaughter first
noticed the first albino, telling us there was a baby chick on the limb of
the tree. Mama continued to feed it, but it didn't come down from the
tree as the others did. It stayed on the branch for three days, then one
early morning it was gone. I hope it flew away. We were surprised to see an
albino in her second set of nestlings, but we never saw either of them in our
yard after they fledged.

Girard, IL

Latitude: 39.5 Longitude: -89.8

Observed by: Shelda
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