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    Baby birds

    Every year it seems we get several baby robins in the back yard, and since their flying skills are pretty poor they can't escape over my 6' fence, things seem to end badly for them. Found two birds back there yesterday, one dead, the other alive. I was able to get the live one to a spot in the fence he could go under into the yard next door. This afternoon I took the dogs out when I got home from work. It had poured rain for a good part of the night til mid morning, so the dogs hadn't had much time outside today. Sophie's up on the deck and Brooks and I are playing with the Jolly Ball, grass is soaking wet, and is in dire need of being cut. Sophie comes bounding off the deck and runs towards the shed, of course Brooks sees her and is right behind her. As they are sniffing the ground I realize it's the baby robin back in the yard. I gave a stern "leave it" and both dogs stopped and looked at me, and froze in place as I got to them. I guess one of the dogs got a hold of the bird, as there were some feathers on the ground, and some missing off the birds back. I'm trying to manage the dogs and pick up the bird, who was having none of it. I was able to get him under the fence I have around a tree in the yard, but there is no way this little guy is going to make it. I got the dogs inside the house, and went back out to see if I could get him and at least get him out of the yard. Sadly, he was dead when I got back to him. I think because he was so soaking wet, he was completely unable to fly when the dogs approached him.

    I wish they would find some other trees to have their babies.

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    That's Mother Nature at work.
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    I never correct my dogs for "retrieving birds". I feel terrible for the baby robins also, but it is my dogs yard. Vic

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    As Blackboy98 said, nature's way is not always easy.

    We have a robin who has built a next over the front porch light, same as last year. DH tried to take it down in the beginning but darn thing must have built it over night. It's complete now so I will not disturb it. Dang bird has been dive bombing us and there are not even eggs in the nest yet. In fact, I hear him calling quite a bit so I think he doesn't even have a girl yet.
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    I gave up a long time ago! Dumb bird brains anyhow... Have several neighbors (we all acreage) who feed them, but whose trees do they come to nest in???
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    I'm not sure what mine would do with something relatively still...they seem to really enjoy the chase (and Sunnie had done nothing with the two squirrels she'd caught after she killed them).

    Baffle, on the other hand, would have swallowed the little birdy whole.

    I heard of a "friend of a friend" who installed some kind of netting under a certain backyard tree because of the numerous baby birds falling out of nests. It was partly to keep neighborhood cats out of the tree, too. I guess that tree was a real deathtrap for lots of birds...to go to that extent.

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    I always call off my girls when they see a baby bird or rabbit, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. We have a chain link fence so at least the babies if they make it can get to the next yard. In the past I have gone out and checked the area frequented by the babies to make sure they are not there before I let my girls out. I have even leashed my girls to go out to keep the baby birds safe until they are big and strong enough to carry themselves.

    Yes, it is mother nature but with the way we humans have destroyed their breeding grounds, forest and polluting not only our water supply but theirs too, I figure a little help from me for a couple days so some of the babies might survive is the least I can do.
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