A couple of weeks ago we were walking down the sidewalk on a busy street in our neighborhood. We came upon a baby robin just standing in the middle of the sidewalk and there was a dead sibling lying next to it. The baby robin was very small and at first we could see no mother in sight. We looked up in the tree above us and there was a nest right above so we figured they had some how fallen out of the tree and one of them just happened to survive. We didn't think it was safe to just leave the bird there so we picked it up and started walking home with it. That was when the mother flew over us freaking out. We feared that the bird would wonder onto the street and get ran over so we proceeded to bring it home with us. When we got home we looked up on the Internet about baby robins and got some information on how to care for this little critter. Unfortunately there was no where here in Regina to care for it so we set forth to take on the responsibility ourselves. At first the robin could do nothing for its self (it could barely hop at all yet) so we set out to find some food for it. We found a couple of flies; some worms from our garden; and some moths and that is what we fed it. It came to us with hardly any wing feathers, no neck feathers, and no tail feathers but as the days went on it grew very quickly and it now has all it's feathers. She (Skyla figures it is a girl) can now fly really well and is now starting to hunt for some food on her own. She (Skip named her Chirpy) still comes to us quite a bit for food but not as often as before. We figure she will be pretty much on her own soon but believe that she will continue to hang around here since she has gotten so used to us. We have enjoyed having her around but realize that she is a wild creature and needs to be out on her own. We actually kind of look forward to when she is totally self sufficient because she has required a lot of time and energy searching for worms and other food for her and she used to eat every half hour when she was really small so it was a huge responsibility. I don't have a recent picture of her yet but when I do I will post that so you can see how she has progressed.
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That's fun you have a baby Robin. Are you sure it was not learning to fly and that's why it was on the ground? We have had Robin in our backyard and when they learn to fly the mother basically pushes them out of the nest to learn and they end up hopping on the ground for a while. Maybe that's why the Mom was so upset?
Yes, we are sure it was not learning to fly. It did not fly until several days later and as I said there was a dead sibling on the sidewalk and the nest right above. We looked on the internet and the mom does not push them out of the nest to learn to fly they fly by instinct once their wings and feathers are sufficiently developed. They hop on the ground to get insects.
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