Yes, mouth is open
3 feet away, it’s not moving
This young robin must have fallen from it’s nest. It was trying to spread its wings with no luck. It also opened its little beak when it saw me. Not knowing how to catch, ingest and regurgitate a worm, I couldn’t help him with that. Hope he makes it…
I hope he makes it too.
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👍😀
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Poor little guy.
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Perhaps he’ll make it…
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Yes this I have see before. The mom and will take care of it. Sometimes little ones are to earger but momma and papa have it all under control
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It is now in the bushes and mom and dad have been spotted going to the little one.
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That is good! …😀
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Poor little one. Have his parents been back for him?
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Yes they are going into the bushes where the youngster is.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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A gang of starlings discovered the half-coconut full of suet today, and three of them were what I would call adolescents. Perfectly able to fly, but still demanding food from the parents! and what a rabble! such fun to watch.
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Our Starling families have done the exact same thing… 😂😂 if the parents put up with it…
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It will be fine. If they leave the nest early — or get kicked out by the parents because there’s a threat around the nest — they’ll be cared for. I saw it first with cardinals, and nearly had a heart attack until I realized that all was well.
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Thanks for sharing! Parental guidance and care usually trumps an early oops when leaving the nest early.
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Hopefully mother and father bird will find him.
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We hope that the reunion has already taken place…. 😀👍
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Yes. It is good to note that he has not been forgotten. He should be fine
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We’re betting mom and dad will take care of him. Thanks!
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American robins fledge around two weeks after hatching. As long as they can perch, fly and hop short distances, and are around places they can hide, they will be OK most of the time. The parent birds do feed them and this time is when the fledglings learn what to eat and how to find it. Predators no doubt catch some of them, yet the reality is most birds hatched in a season don’t make it to the next year. If they survive the first year, they are likely to make it long enough to breed several years.
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I have read that surviving percentages are pretty low in fact. Thanks for sharing, and the bushes he’s in are ideal. Fingers crossed for him…
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I read once the survival rate is something like 10% for a given year’s hatch.
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That’s not the best odds is it? Thanks for sharing.
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The learning curve is fraught with predators and other obstacles to survival.
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