Robin Eggs- Nature photography

An American Robin family took up residence in our trellis one happy spring. They built a nest low enough to easily see into it, without getting too close.

It was fun to watch the nest go from empty, to sheltering the distinctive, beautifully colored robin eggs. How quickly they turned from scrawny, featherless hatchlings into fledglings!

In less than two weeks, they were on the fence ready for their first flight.

 

 

“Spring would not be spring without bird songs.”
–  Francis M. Chapman  

 

 

“That little bird has chosen his shelter.  Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds.  Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow’s lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.”
–  Martin Luther    

 

 

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots.  The other is wings.”
–  Hodding Carter, Jr.

 

 

Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The bird that comes about our doors When autumn winds are sobbing? – William Wordsworth

 

 

Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
The Bible, Matthew 6:26

 

 

You have to believe in happiness,
Or happiness never comes …
Ah, that’s the reason a bird can sing –
On his darkest day he believes in Spring.
-Douglas Malloch, You Have To Believe

 

 

Use the talents you possess – for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
-Henry Van Dyke

 

 

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

-Joan Walsh Anglund

 

 

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

– Rose Kennedy