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Bird i.d. anyone?
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I know they're not pets, but only Bird Girl in zoology had any insights. I kind of hope it's not a starling. In the second picture it's sitting just a few feet away from a robin. Do robins nest in pairs, and are the females brown and grey? The brown one is the one who does the brooding and feeding. It's the same nest that was used last year, does that mean it is the same bird? Early in the spring it hovers about 3 feet to the side and and below the nest, staying in one spot mid-air with its wings fluttering like a moth. Then after the eggs are laid and newly hatched, it'll leave the nest when you walk by, but just go and perch nearby and chirp a little bit. As the babies get closer to fledging, it will dive-bomb us when we try to come in and out of the house. Today the poop started flying and it'll be pretty nasty out there for a couple of weeks til they leave.
The eggs would have been a dead giveaway. Everyon'e heard of "robin's egg blue". I wasn't able to get up there to see them, and I don't see any shells, unless that white thing stuck to the edge is a piece of shell. Steve thinks it's poop though.
She doesn't have a red breast.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
hey...me again..just reading your description of the flight and this seems more and more to me like a flycatcher type bird..since you live in Maine I would guess it is an Eastern Phoebe (Black Phoebe is the western counterpart which I mentioned earlier). Also, phoebes are one of the few species that will reuse nests from year to year. The color of the bird still looks a little off to me even for a phoebe..it should have a much lighter chest than it looks in the photos, but the body shape and bill shape looks right. Look here for more on Eastern Phoebes. Also, phoebes and other flycatchers pump their tail when they perch..look for this behavior.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGui...
The mossy looking stuff on the nest here looks similar to your nest photo as well. Also, Starlings are cavity nesters, and the photo for sure is not a starling.
- Country GIRLLv 71 decade ago
I believe from the pics they are called AMERCIAN ROBINS.
the song of the male advertises this is his turf around the time the babies are hatched.
Nests are made of mud and grasses for the eggs. they can have 3 broods a year on average only 40% have babies 25% of the babies make it to Nov if this happens the bird will live. Then 1/2 make it to next year.
The female robin makes the nest each time and she is so picky with this job and they like them as high as they can be and in a good place to watch and care for. There have been cases wher a robin has built a nest on top of another saves her some work.
The parents are like watch dogs when it comes to the babies this is why they try to ward you off the babies were alive and ready to eat from the pics you have But the birds do not return to an old nest but this could be an off spring of the frist ones mate for life dont know for sure.
- 1 decade ago
Don't know if you got a good look at the eggs or not but that should be a good indicator if it is indeed a robin nest. Here's a link if you asked here first.
