This morning when we went to check on the baby Robins we only found two of them in the nest. Of course we immediately were excited because the third one was now a 'fledgling' we thought! Fledglings are baby Robins that are at the stage of jumping out of the nest and starting to practice flying :)
I went outside to see if I could catch a glimpse of it hopping around on the ground and snap a photo of him from a distance but I couldn't find it anywhere! At first I thought that it had really done well and must have already went to be with Daddy..... but then I found it. It was to late to save him. By the looks of his feathers on his wings I don't think that it was even ready to make the jump but maybe so, or perhaps when they were stretching and moving around in the nest it accidentally fell out? We're all saddened by the news and have buried him to detract any cats and such from coming to it and prowling around the nest area. I wonder what the survival rate of Robin fledglings is? I'll have to find out.
