{"id":40685,"date":"2013-06-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=5e847fddf87694bcc5b5b5ce2736d463"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:00:17","slug":"baby-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/baby-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Robin !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I found a robin’s nest in the garden behind my home in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

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The nest was placed under a lamp, where it was sheltered from rain, heated from the light at night, and supported on a sturdy pole. Clever!<\/p>\n

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I tiptoed out after dark and found a vigilant parent motionless on the edge of thenest, watching me. I bet she heard me coming.<\/p>\n

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This parent is removing a fecal sac that a chick produced, a little membrane-bound package of waste material that is easily carried away and discarded.<\/p>\n

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Robin chicks grow fast. Not wanting to disturb them overly much, I returned a week after I took the photos above, and I found this giant baby.<\/p>\n

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Action shot! A parent brought food and the baby jumped up enthusiastically, looking sparsely feathered. Parent and chick in a classic pose. A few days after this photo was taken, I went to look at the nest and found it empty. Good luck, Baby Robin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I found a robin’s nest in the garden behind my home in Brooklyn. The nest was placed under a lamp, where it was sheltered from rain, heated from the light at night, and supported on a sturdy pole. Clever! I tiptoed out after dark and found a vigilant parent motionless on the edge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2193017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gaoISdleyno\/UbUfpKhiTQI\/AAAAAAAABSc\/qXcM0jd9AVs\/s1600\/6","fifu_image_alt":"Baby Robin !","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2450,780],"class_list":["post-40685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-robin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}