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Victoria Day Robin
Diane CBPFC:
It has been Victoria Day weekend here in Alberta - the traditional weekend for starting the veggie gardens - it has been cool and overcast but still I have been out in the garden doing a bit of weeding as my husband builds me MORE raised veggie beds. It is starting to look like a serious veggie garden. For 8 years I had 2 raised beds, I had 4 last year when we thought it would be nice to have some home grown potatoes, and now there are 7 - they are huge beds 4' x 16'.
Anyway, the highlight of my day was seeing a robin, that was hanging around with me while I have been gardening this past week, sit on a nest of lovely blue eggs.
Bilthehut:
We had robins in our garden last year. The first batch survived just a few days as one flew into a bucket with water and drowned, while the other musty have had something wrong with it as it only hopped around and did not last more than three days in the garden. I made him some cover as it was so cold but he shuffled off this mortal coil overnight.
The second batch were out of the nest and away before we could see them.
Bilthehut:
Here’s the nest.
Bilthehut:
Here’s the hopping one.
Bilthehut:
We also had some blackbirds around the corner of our garden. They fledged ok.
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