Robins set up artful nursery on porch

BIRDS — You have to love American robins and their comfort zone with American families.

One year I wrote a column about having to postpone a family canoeing trip because I’d discovered robins raising a brood on the seat of my canoe hanging under the deck.  A gracious reader loaned me an extra canoe and the trip went on while the chicks were nourished.

Barb Brock posted the photo above of a robins’ nest in a delightful setting in the hanging fuchsia basket on her front porch.  Soon she posted the second photo of robin chicks hatching and begging for their first meal.

This weekend the Brocks had a big gathering of kids, all of which had to enter the house through the garage.