NF Trees and Bushes

A small plum tree with a little surprise ...

A nest with Momma Robin sitting on it ... :)

Andrea

P.S.  I used my zoom so I wouldn't disturb her ... 

Wild Bird Wednesday

The black birds were very disturbed the evening that we went to Lurie gardens ...

Here they are mobbing a pair of crows ...

 watching and calling on a light post ...

 Two crows calling on the building across the street ...

 A Robin on alert ...

and a Grackle's intense stare ...

But they were not at all concerned with this Big Bad Bird (Great Horned Owl)

The blackbirds were dive bombing the Kestrel so we had to move him into the tent.  He was the culprit ... I learned something that had never occurred to me before.  This American Kestrel is a diurnal hunter ... a threat that all of the dirural birds recognized ... but the Owl, a nocturnal hunter, posed no threat to them because they never see them hunt.  I thought that was pretty amazing :)

Andrea

Wild Bird Wednesday

This little Robin has quite a dilemma ... 

She has gathered a beak full of pine needles for her nest but ...

she can't take them to her nest because there are "humans" watching her ... (me with my camera and my friend who owns the pine tree and the house the Robin is on).

So she wonders back and forth on the roof, waiting for us to leave ...

So she won't disclose the location of her nest ...

We did finally leave and to this day, we don't know where her nest is ... She is a good Mom!