This spring an American Robin built a nest on the ledge above my front door. This seemed like a great opportunity to set up a live feed camera and this page shows the highlights. I am uploading videos as time allows and there is a live view in the table below. There has been some adjustments in the camera location so some of the viewing angles have changed, hopefully it is in a good location now. The Robin timeline starts here
(c) 2022 Dan Dietrich Photography
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| May 1 - Nest Building | Nest Building |
| May 18 - First Egg Hatching | First Egg Hatching (part 1) |
| May 18 - Six Minutes After First Egg Hatched | First Egg Hatching (part 2) |
| May 19 - Third Egg Hatching | Third Egg Hatching |
| May 24 - Feeding Chicks and removing the poop sack | Feeding and sack removal |
| May 28 - Another feeding chicks followed by a sack removal | Feeding and sack removal |
| May 28 - Fresh worms for breakfast | Fresh worms for breakfast |
| May 31 - Trying to get some sleep at 3am | Trying to get some sleep at 3am | May 31 - Worms, worms and more worms | Worms, worms and more worms | June 2 - First Robin Fledging | First Robin Fledging | June 2 - First Robin Fledging in Slow Motion | First Robin Fledging in Slow Motion | June 2 - Last Robin Fledging | Last Robin Fledging | June 5 - Young Robin Returns To Nest Area | Young Robin Returns To Nest Area | June 2 - End of this chapter |
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The nest sat idle for a while after the robin chicks fledged. During this idle time, I upgraded the camera to new one that include sound. I was thinking the robins might have a second brood in the same nest. The second brood did not happen but interestingly, a pair of Finches discovered the nest. They did a little remodeling on it and got it ready for their eggs. The Finch timeline starts here
(c) 2022 Dan Dietrich Photography
The vacant Robin nest was discoverd by Finches and they remodeled it to suit their needs. I also upgraded the camera to include sound with the video so be sure to turn up your volume.
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| June 18 - Finches Discover the Robin Nest | Finches Discovers The Robin Nest |
| June 19 - Finches Remodeling the nest to fit their needs | Nest Remodeling |
| June 19 - Nest Building and Packing | Nest Building |
| June 19 - Nest Building and Packing | Nest Building |
| June 22 - Nest Before & After |
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| June 22 - First egg | First Egg |
| June 22 - Different male stealing nest material | Different male stealing nest material |
| June 23 - Second egg | Second Egg |
| June 24 - Third egg | Third Egg |
| June 24 - Planning for more eggs? | Planning for more eggs? |
| June 25 - Fourth egg | Fourth Egg |
| July 1 - Four eggs total Best guess on hatching is around July 10-11 |
Four Eggs Total |
| July 5 - First Egg Hatching (my best guess was way off) |
First Egg Hatching |
| July 6 - Second Egg Hatching | Second Egg Hatching |
| July 7 - Third Egg Hatching | Third Egg Hatching |
| July 9 - Morning Feeding | Morning Feeding |
| July 18 - Feeding Again | Feeding Again |
| July 21 - First Fledge | First Fledge |
| July 21 - Unexpected Visitor | Unexpected Visitor |
| July 22 - Third Fledge | Third Fledge |
| July 22 - Fourth Fledge | Fourth Fledge |