So there we were, a few weeks ago, checking out the base for the foundation work that was about to begin. I walked by Mike Goheen’s excavator, like I have done a million times before, but this time, a robin came flying out at me. And not just a pass-by, this was a full on attack. Her wings came so close to my head I swear I felt the feathers touch me. Now,  I may have let out a little-girl scream, but hey, it was scary! Anyway, I went to check out where the robin came from, and what did I see – the wonder of nature! Right there on Mike’s excavator.

So we went and checked out how we go about moving a robin’s nest. We found out that you actually can’t. If the mamma robin comes back to where she left her eggs she won’t go looking for nest, those little blue eggs are toast. No, I didn’t say “on toast”, that would be gross! Anyway, we were told that if there was under 4 eggs the mom would start a new nest. If there was 4 eggs she wouldn’t nest again for the rest of the Spring. When we first saw the nest there was only 3 eggs. But we knew that there was no place near Mike’s excavator to move the nest, so we just had to leave it as is.

That was 2 weeks ago. In the past 2 weeks Mike has moved his excavator 3 or 4 times, and has also been using it almost every day.

We thought for sure the nest and eggs were going to be gone the next time we came to the land.

But our mamma robin was very persistent. Not only did she drop another egg (yup, there were 4!). And no matter where Mike and her little blue eggs moves, she was right there with them.

This weekend we went down to The County to check out the foundation walls put in by Custom Forming. We were pretty excited to see the progress of the houses, so it didn’t even cross my mind to check in on the robin’s eggs. And once again, walking behind the excavator, mamma robin did a warning fly-past to say “stay away!”.

I went behind the excavator to check out the nest and woo hoo – we have new baby robins! Now some people say we have enough robins in The County. And we were even told it’s not fully necessary we try and save the robin eggs. But we couldn’t be happier with the first baby robin’s born under our watch!

Hey, did you ever wonder why robin eggs are blue? I was checking it out and although it’s not exactly known why, they think it’s to protect them from the UV rays of the sun. Nesting in Mike’s excavator seems to work pretty well too!