July 31st Babies

Good morning everyone! It is still a 61°F morning, but we can already tell it isn’t going to warm up to 85°F like yesterday. A cold front passed us yesterday, bringing with it several storms that mostly just ruffled our feathers but caused power outages in other places in our county.  Today, it is cloudy and warm; the temperature will not pass 75°F. Another cold front and low pressure systems should bring the temperature back into the 50’s tonight with some wind and rain.

Speaking of feathers, look at these adorable robin babies! They seemed to have hatched yesterday and both mommy robin and daddy robin are taking good care of them. All credits go to non-blogging human who found them! I haven’t seen them and neither has blogging human because we don’t want to overwhelm the parents.

 Our human reports that both mommy and daddy robin were taking turns feeding the birds (he knows for sure that there were two because at one point, both of them were in the nest) and that mommy robin was fluffed up on the nest from time to time protecting her babies. They were also observed feeding whole worms to the babies. Can you believe that robin’s stomachs are developed to eat whole worms on the first day of their life?!

According to our human, the babies chirps are inaudible, except when you’re right next to them, and then they sound like “little pins dropping”. The mommy bird sounds like “an alien” in a slo-mo video, and also according to him, it was definitely the mommy standing guard over her chicks looking all important albeit “weary” while the daddy was out hunting.

Meanwhile, in my life, nothing remotely interesting has been going on – oh wait. I DID get hosed down yesterday and slathered with doggy shampoo. I thought it was very refreshing so I was a very good dog and stood still, but little Winstok squirmed so much it he had to be restrained in our human’s lap! Last time our human did this, Winston revenge-chewed her favorite flip-flop to shreds right in front of her. I wonder what he is plotting this time?

Our human is walking towards us with a smile and a vial of tick poison in her hand. Time to scram!

Love,

Mack