SPRING ROBINS

Continued from the previous post: GASP

We interrupt this chicken-blog to bring you

this robin

who bashed herself against this window 

day in and day out 

for  two weeks.

During brief breaks, she built this scruffy nest in a bush nearby.

She met herself a fella who liked her quirky ways, and in four days they had four eggs.

She tucked them in and sat on them.

Three hairy pink babies hatched on a cold morning, and the fourth hatched that afternoon.

Both parents cared for them tirelessly.

In a few days they started to look like birds.

Babies grew huge as days grew warm.

In two short weeks they were done.

Alert and ready, they literally popped out of the nest.

They each spent a day in the bushes around the yard while the parents continued to feed them.

And now they're part of the world.

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