Young Robin

I was heading out for a quick trip to the grocery store at 6:30 AM earlier this week. Before I got in the car, I walked out of the open garage door since there seemed to be an odd leaf under the dogwood tree beside the driveway. It wasn’t a leaf!

A young robin was in the grass. It stayed very quiet and still – although it did move its head slightly to follow my location. I didn’t get very close….used the magnification available on my camera. The wings didn’t look developed enough for the bird to fly.

When I came back from my errands about an hour later, the young robin was gone. There were no feathers scattered in the area so I think the bird hopped away – hopefully to a secure place.

A quick google search revealed some posts about young robins that left the nest very early and some of them managed to survive because their parents continued to feed them and tried to show them safe places where they can hide close to the ground!

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A few days later I saw an adult robin feeding a young robin on our fence. The young bird was half the size of the adult but it could fly! I am hoping it was the birds I saw in the grass.