Chick fell out of the nest

[Eyelight]

Amazing that the momma is hanging around, dedicated to the chick. I think you've achieved birdie-uncle status.

 

[Pretzel]

Nice deed, great photo series to chronicle!

 

[Ijustwant1]

yes please keep this going as long as you can !!

 

[aroy]

2014-06-12 : Day 6

First half of the day, took photos at two hour interval


Critical evaluation


Still dozing


Rear View


Top View


Keep your distance


Caught in flight


Feathers are filling up

 

[weebee]

Nice job! I enjoyed watching our Robin grow up as well.

 

[aroy]

Here is a panorama (using Microsoft ICE) of the backyard, taken from the ground level.



The temparature for the past four days was around 45 degrees centigrade. Today it is a bit lower, and as I write this, clouds have gathered and there may be rain.

 

[aroy]

2014-06-12 : Day 6

Second half of the day. Clouds came up and then it started raining.


Rain clouds


Afternoon


Afternoon


Evening - Mama ever vigilant

The chick is hungry now, and opens the mouth when any one approaches

 

[aroy]

2014-06-13 : Day 7
The sky is overcast with intermittent showers. Mama is content as no one is approaching the chick in this weather.


Morning. The chick is in its original nest which we relocated from the tree.


Close up


The set up. The water bowl is just visible. Shifted it from the box, as the chick could have jumped into it.


By noon the chick is dozing.


Ever vigilant Mama


Waking up


Mama


Hungry again


Lone Vigil

 

[aroy]

2014-06-14 : Day 8

The chick has flow the nest early in the morning. My wife saw mama feeding it at around 0700 hrs and by 0800 when I came to photograph, it was gone.


Nest empty


Mama

So the story ends. Our gardener was spot on. On the first day itself he was confidant that the chick would fly away by Saturday, and that is it.

 

[JohnFrench]

Thank you.

 

[Roy1961]

agghh, i was enjoying this thread to much, do you know what kind of bird it was, great job by the way:eagerness:

 

[Eyelight]

Enjoyed the story.

 

[dh photography]

Great job! A wonderful thing you did. Thank you for sharing with us.

 

[aroy]

Thank you all. I do not know the name, but here are the images again, and if you can identify it please let me know

 

[Ijustwant1]

Thank you so much for sharing that !

 

[FastGlass]

That's awesome. Unfortunately my very similar story didn't have a happy ending. Needed to move a Robins nest to finish a front porch and her nest was up in the rafters. Hmmm
what to do. So we moved the nest to a nearby tree and well, momma wasn't interested anymore

 

[Roy1961]

I wonder if this is it?

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/gray_catbird/id

sent from Pandora via bluehead 2014

 

[aroy]

Finally found the name of the bird - Red Vented Bulbul