<p>Next to my back door I have a drain spout coming off the roof. A robin built her next tucked in behind and sort of on top of it. She is a very possessive mommy bird as she swoops down at my little dog when I let him out. Late this afternoon it must have blown down. H and I came home from running errands and she was sitting on the steps staring into space with a worm in her mouth. The next was laying next to her with 2 dead babies in it. She stayed like that for over an hour and then she took off. I just flicked on the light to see what was going on and she is sitting on top of the drain spout under the eaves just looking around.</p>
<p>I feel so bad for her and i really feel like I should toss out the nest with the babies, but I feel like I need to give her time to come to grips with her loss. She was in the same spot last year so I don’t need Dear Mrs. Robin returning year after year to dive bomb everyone that walks out the door. yikes!!!</p>
<p>That’s sad. I was really sad when my neighbor’s cat destroyed the dove nest on my porch pillar and killed the 2 baby doves 2 years ago. I still have the cute pictures of the 2 little birds that I took the day before they were killed.</p>
<p>Oh that is sad…I had a nest of barn swallows in my porchlight a couple of years ago. As much as I love birds , they were a nuisance because they made a mess of my porch and also, sing at night.</p>
<p>No idea what to tell you,but so sorry We had a robin build a nest in our garage once!! THat was a pain. We took the nest out before she laid any eggs.</p>
<p>We had some sparrows lay multiple rounds of eggs in nests in a wreath on our front door last Spring. Two rounds hatched and flew away and several rounds of eggs were killed by starlings. If you don’t want more eggs you should get rid of the nest. We couldn’t use our front door for a couple of months, but we loved watching the whole thing play out.
It was great entertainment!</p>
<p>I had a robin’s nest deep inside my dryer vent this year. The nest was actually quite large and I wonder if there weren’t remnants of a nest from last year that I didn’t know about. But my dryer was not working right, I checked the vent, saw the nest and then really cleaned out that vent. Two robin eggs were inside the nest and I was not able to save the eggs as they broke while trying to remove them. </p>
<p>The next day the robins rebuilt the nest and i had to remove it again. This time I put screen mesh over the opening. It was really hard to see that mother robin frantically peck away at the screening, trying to get inside the vent again. After 2-3 days, she gave up but I do see her staying close to the house so I wonder if she rebuilt her nest somewhere else.</p>
<p>The most interesting nests I’ve seen were in South Africa. Male yellow weavers build beautiful nests that hang by a slender strand. The female mate will inspect the nest, and if she doesn’t like it just SNIPS the strand so that the nest falls to the ground! Then the male builds another one! I had to laugh - in one area, there must have been 20 nests strewn all over the ground! Poor guys…</p>
<p>Aww, Kajon, I know how you feel. We have a mama robin who comes every year and builds her nest in the yard. They seem to always choose precarious locations, I don’t know why. In all the years of her residing with us, I’ve only ever seen one baby bird make it to the stage where they leave the nest. Three years in a row, she built it on top of a support board that is below our masterbedroom balcony. It also happens to be right where a patio door from our kitchen to the deck is located. So every time we opened the door to the deck, I had to check first to see if she was there, and if so, I made everyone use another door. I’ve kept an eye out this year, determined to not let her build in that location again, not because of the inconvenience of using another door, but because I don’t want to find dead baby robins on my deck again. They fall out of that nest every year and I hate seeing that. I honestly don’t know what the answer is for your mama robin but I certainly understand your sadness.</p>
We had a robin build a nest in our garage once!! THat was a pain. We took the nest out before she laid any eggs.</p>