Nature's Patience

We have many birds around our home but the most visible are the robins. This year as usual we have several nests in our trees.Usually the robin has three babies or more but this year we have one robin with only one chick.

This little mother has lost it's mate and the one chick stays pretty well within the confines of our front yard. Yesterday was a beautiful day and the baby robin took this occasion to perch in our Japanese Maple tree. It sat there all day and when nightfall came it remained there. Theresa and I checked at 11.pm and it seemed to be ready to stay there all night.

This morning when I checked at 7 am there it was in the same place. It began to rain and in fact pour but the little bird stayed fast in it's position. Finally the mother showed up and tried to coax it down with no success. The mother made numerous visits to feed the chick but as of now it remains firm in that location.It reminds me of the pole sitters of old who would sit on a pole for great lengths of time.

Nature has instilled great patience in the birds but this one takes the cake. We will watch and observe if the mother robin drives the chick off the branch or continues to feed it from that location.