Fallen angel
It seems that I’m in a bizarre period of time when everything around me has something to do with babies. My sister has recently given birth to a pair of twins http://www.pbase.com/dlcmh, on Christmas day. Friends and colleagues are having some fun time with their babies too (maybe it’s just sheer coincidence that I’m at the age band when people quite often start to have babies). But then again even the animals in my flat have babies! One of the baby platies finally survives, now big enough not to be eaten by other fishes in the my tank. And there are these garden birds, robins, found to have given birth to two babies in our courtyard.
At first we only spotted two adult robins that seemed to reside on the ash tree in our courtyard. Then one evening we heard one of these robins screaming and jumping non-stop while we were cooking. It was rather unusual, as all we did was just opening the kitchen door. We didn’t even step outside into the courtyard (robins are aggressively territorial and are quick to drive away intruders, most probably not including human :)). Not until we went out into the courtyard to find out what was happening that we know why the adult robin was behaving peculiarly.
This is one of the pictures I took for the baby robin a day after she was fallen from her nest. At first sight I thought she looks like a crested penguin, because of her tall standing hair 
Very cute indeed.
My compassionate W almost immediately made her a "nest", believing that she would stay in there, as logically (at least to us) the nest could keep her warm at night. But that was not to be. Instead she preferred to stay at one corner, after I tried unsuccessfully to get her into the "nest" at the other corner. How naughty.
We left her some bird seeds. But I suppose she doesn’t know how to feed herself yet. So it became her dad’s or her mum’s (Male and female robins are identical. Silly us we initially thought both adult robins are male, because they both have red breast, as we thought only male robins have red breast. If that’s the case then they are going to be gay couple, and with these babies adopted? Hmmm, not very convincing isn’t it? :)) job to feed the seeds, taking from one corner to another, into her mouth. It was such a treat for us to be able to witness the adult robin doing this over and over again from our window.
It’s the second day today and this little guy still hasn’t fully developed her wings to fly. According to our friend, it’s best to leave them alone. It’s getting a bit annoying now that everytime we open the kitchen door the adult robin will keep screaming and screaming. In terms of distracting us I think he certainly is doing a great job, but not from distracting us away from his baby, just pure distraction Hopefully the baby robin has no problem living outside her nest and can soon fly like other healthy robins.
