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These are the Robin Chronicles. There is, of course, a prelude or backstory here, which started in the spring of 2012 when a robin built a waist-high nest in a very small tree in Rebecca Petty’s backyard. Every morning she would sneak out while the occupants had gone looking for food.

Rebecca would take pictures of the progress of the hatching of four tiny pastel blue Robin eggs. One afternoon, she luckily caught the first chick hatching and immediately filmed it, the mother who was close by, was pretty mad at her during those crucial 8 minutes of filming. Happily, all the babies had survived and finally flew away, fit and well, 4 weeks later. To me, this was so super cool !!! Here is her video: