Robin's Nest

A Robin's nest is an untidy affair but it is something that we should miss Were it not a part of our environment? Few bird's eggs are more lovely in color Than those of the familiar Robin's egg blue Nestled in their grass-lined cup of clay Olive Thorn Miller wrote of a clever Robin that wished to build her nest During an almost rainless spring She could find no mud So she waited about in her drinking dish to wet her legs. Then hopped into the dust and with her bill scraped the mud off her legs. This she did repeatedly until she had the necessary amount. I once saw Mother Robin sheltering her brood during a rainstorm of great violence Her soft body