
I do know that at least the mama bird has had some very traumatic experiences in the last week, well beyond any nervousness caused by me getting up close and taking a few pictures.
Her nest is precariously perched in a 'Miss Kim' Lilac beside my house. Last Thursday, a large crew of roofers spent an amazingly short three hours stripping off all the old shingles and putting on a new roof. I was home when they did it and they were quite loud, quite quick and I'm sure at the speed that the SIXTEEN roofers worked, shingles were flying everywhere. Mama bird must have been quite distraught.
Then on Monday, another crew came and took off all the gutters and put on new gutters. They must have come quite close to this nest at one time when they removed and installed the gutters on that side of the house.
In a way, it's amazing the nest didn't fall out of the lilac.
I just hope mama bird wasn't totally traumatized by all of these events and is coming back to feed this baby bird and that the other egg hatches soon.
While all this activity is taking place on the west side of the house, on the east side of the house some summer flowers are starting to bloom.
Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea)

Tiger or Ditch Lily (Hemerocallis fulva)

It's got that "open mouth" look like that little bird. I know the birdie is crying out for food, what would this flower want?
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The other egg may hatch a day later so all is not lost (yet). As for the missing eggs, some other bird could be the culprit. I've watched magpies take realistic-looking fake eggs from decorative nests on my back porch and fly away with them. Which reminds me that only one in five baby birds live to adulthood, and they've got to overcome the hurdle of hatching first!
The flower pics are great. . . neither my echinacea or tiger lilies are blooming quite yet ~ I can't wait!
My echinacea is just about to start blooming, and I have lots of lilies in bud right now. Hopefully it'll all be gorgeous in time for Bloom Day :-)
I liked the Lily photo. Yes, so like the open mouth of the hungry chick I agree.
Let’s hope the parents come back and feed the chick. It can be hard sometimes for them to find food and the young chicks need lots of it to grow and the rate they do! Fingers crossed it fledges okay.
The chick is a robin isn’t it? Our European robin is quite different from yours – I have photos of it on my post ‘Bring a smile’. I’d be very interested in seeing pictures of the robins that visit your garden :-)
Please let us know if the baby bird is ok.
I have seen more dead baby birds this year than any other I can remember.
The baby bird was so sweet... We've had a couple of birds called Talgoxe (I don't know what they're called in english...) building a nest at our house. Today the baby birds left the nest and I already miss the sound of them...
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Calling the baby bird "it" and "birdie" doesn't seem quite right. So, hereafter, I've chosen the original name of "Lily" because of the resemblance to the lily in this post.
The other egg still has not hatched, by the way.
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