I was soooo happy that a robin family decided to move in on the

back porch light.Until the bird shit started accumulating on my porch window! I am halfway kidding, I am still glad the birdies are there, it's just starting to look nasty. They sure poop a lot.

of shit per year. Robins are a lot smaller, but I bet they still produce at least 10 lbs a year.

Yeah. That a lot of shit!!!!

:rofl:

:hi:

in my bathroom window last year and nest stuff kept falling off of it but It was cool watching the little baby brown birds hatch and grow.I had to keep the door closed all of the time because of the cats though.

Birds are beyond cool!

If not, wait. You ain't seen bird shit until those little crap generators hang their butts over the edge of the nest.

But they are fun to watch grow up.

the nest was just built a couple of weeks ago. Going to be fun, I agree.

At first the kid's poop is contain in gel sacks which mom will carefully remove from the nest and drop on your porch.

Simple Green will do a good safe job of cleaning up the mess.

I will keep an eye out for the gel sacks. I just hope none of the babies fall out..I don't think I could handle that.

You may have to. It's fairly common. Only half of them will survive their first year and the majority of the deaths occur before they leave the nest.

She'll have more chicks than she can feed or the bigger chicks will crowd out the smallest or it's hatched crippled. The development within the egg is chancey. Part of the embryo's body often sticks to the interior of the shell and can't grow properly, etc.

If the fallen chick hasn't fledged yet, but still alive and not grossly malformed, you can try returning it to the nest. However, more often than not that may be prolonging the suffering. Good chance you'll find it on the porch, again. If it has fledged, you can attempt to hand feed it until it can fly. Involved and tricky, but it can be done.

Sorry to be so down about it, but nature is a hard knocks school. It's indifferent to individuals; its concern is the species and even that not so much.

in tin foil and anything else that will deter that bird.

Plant some inkberries nearby. That way you can have purple dollops everywhere year round. Wait until in snows in winter. Trust me: no matter how much your yard will look like a grape flavored Sno Cone, don't eat the purple snow. :rofl:

Also, you DO know that when the babies start to grow up a little, they will hang their asses out over the side of the nest and start training for aiming at your head with it, don't you? They don't just happen to learn to do that later in life. They start training for it rather young. :rofl:

the baby bird noises but I never saw them. All I got was the white **** all over my steps.

The parents were fetching worms for the young one, who could only hop around.

They all vanished when the sun went down.

so hopefully you have shrubs close by, as they will need a safe place until they learn to fly. Good luck!