I was away at a conference last week, and the song "Cheerio! Cheerio!" greeted me on my return, from all the surrounding bushes and trees. Why, you may ask? Because our robins had grown up in my absence, of course. It o…

I have met brave robin mamas who will tolerate a fairly close approach, but this one, this spring, will take off to the nearby spruce tree at the smallest sign of us. So we took this indistinct shot of her through our cl…

Does that wish sound belated to you? If so, you live in a sunnier clime than mine. We only just got rid of the snow... but on a specially built platform high on my front porch wall, a robin just laid two beautiful eggs. …