Thread by @kkaplan

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Day 4

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Day 5

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Day 6

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Day 7 (any guesses on a due date?)

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Day 8

A robin's body is 104 degrees F. or warmer. A mother robin shares her body warmth by parting her outer feathers and then pressing her hot bare tummy against her eggs or her young nestlings.

via journeynorth.org/tm/robin/Eggst… @journeynorthorg

See it happening:

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Day 9

Early bird gets the worm… for mom.
Dad brought a snack this morning so mom can sleep in.

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Day 10

Incubation is typically 12-14 days, so we should see some hatching sometime in the next couple days.

sciencing.com/long-robin-egg…

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Day 11

When it’s the middle of the night, the kids are keeping you up and you just can’t find a comfortable place to fall asleep.

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Day 12
Any bets on a due date?

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We have… a robin.
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Mother and baby are doing well.
No weight or height available at this time.

#KaplanRobinCam status as of this morning:
2 hatched
2 eggs

Mom and dad and trying to keep up with feedings.

See, @elizabethalbell…

Eggs have all hatched:
2: two days old
2: one day old

Just a reminder: nature is cruel and doesn’t care about what you think about that fact.
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The one that fell was rescued and mom is still feeding it. We have three left in the nest.

Kids don’t know yet 😢

Parents wrote off the one that fell.
I put it back in the nest and they are still feeding it.

Good luck, buddy.
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Parents seem to have kept the third.

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Happy Mother’s Day!
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Birds are getting big.
Both parents are bringing grub nonstop.
About another week until they are ready for flight.
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Robins are 5-6 days old at this point.

One of the birds is taking an interest as to what’s happening outside… will a flight come soon?
Momma seems to want it to go back in.
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The scoop on “poop”.
Where does it go when you’re cooped up in a nest?

via: journeynorth.org/tm/robin/Fecal… @journeynorthorg

“Baby robins remain in their nest for about 13 days. Just about every time the nestlings gulp down some food, they poop. Let's see—that's

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Robins are 15/16 days old and have been getting very big. The one my daughter nicknamed “raven” is hopping up on the nest and flexing wings. Might be ready to fly soon.
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Amazing how the smallest movement gets them to reach for food and start chirping.

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Flight

Bye-bye birdie. It was nice meeting you.
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Flight #2
(and then there was one)

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Flight #3
#emptynest
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Umm… where is everybody?

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Fin.

We’ll see if they try the nest again.
Thanks to those that wrote about enjoying the #KaplanRobinCam.

My kids had a great time watching them grow.

How it started / How it’s going: