We were aware of a second robin nesting in our garden so, once the first set had fledged, I moved the (cheap) wildlife camera to our patio where this pair were nesting in an exposed plant pot under a fern (that we couldn’t water for fear of damaging the nest). Here are a selection of the photos:
This is a lucky shot – it shows the robin flying to the nest. I haven’t cropped this version of the image as it shows the context of the nest which is at the rear of this plant pot. You can see that the fern has all but died by comparing the brown frizzled leaves against the vibrant green of the one next to it.
Cropping this image shows the detail of the robin – very lucky considering the camera only takes 1 photo every 6 seconds:
A reasonably sharp image considering the camera…
Here is one of it feeding one of its young:
And a photo of the robin with food in its beak:
And pausing for a moment:
Here it is flying away from the nest – you can see its shadow on the wall:
Another of the robin flying away – this time the shadow is on the ground:
Finally a fledgeling preparing to fly away:
Within a couple of hours all of the birds (we don’t know how many) had left the nest as the robins were no longer returning to the plant pot.
Update 22nd June 2015:
Here is the empty nest in the pot-
