Hi all--Cassie, sorry to hear about you family's loss. I received the robin today, I just went through it and put in some new seeds that weren't already there, crape myrtle, baptista australis, some daylilies and LOTS of others. It is a nice robin, and very nicely organized guys! This was my first round robin, thanks for making it a good one. I will get this baby Robin out tomorrow and get it on to Theresa in NC! I'll post confirmation number ASAP tomorrow. ---Dana

I agree with Lisa,I don't think one bad day would do them in,Are the parents going to the box?This may be their first nesting ever,sometimes Sometimes it takes a couple of nestings with a young pair before they get it right.If you really want to try to provide food for them,I would take a shallow paper cup and tack it to the top of the box,and put some mealworms or wax worms in it,That way they can't miss them,But I would only do this for a few days,you don't want to attract other birds to the nest box.I do not recommend you bring the babies in the house,For one it is illegal,two,I doubt they would survive.And three,maybe the parents do have things under control.Most nestlings will hunker down during a nest check giving the appearance of a sleeping or weak bird.Just keep a eye on the parents,look for them to be carrying fetal sacks from the nest,If you see that then you know they are being fed.

SUNNY ABUNDANCE SUPERSTITION TATTOOED DAUGHTER And this is a goofy little juvenile brown towhee that somehow slipped and got its little self stuck down inside one of the columns of my metal pergola in the backyard. My son and I had to take the base off the column and lift it up in order to get her/him out. Not sure how long it was in there, but it was pretty exhausted and disoriented when it flew out the bottom... and or damn dog almost caught it twice, so we had to put her in the house til the poor birdie could recover from the ordeal and get away.

Jasmine, my birds are well enclosed inside a pretty secure 8'x24' pen, with a 4'x5' coop near the back end. We put chicken wire across the top and on the ground around the pen, and there's corrugated metal roofing over 16' of the coop-end. Not too many predators come into our yard ... our dog pretty much keeps them out, but then she's the predator. She'd swoop on these ladies any chance she'd get!! The only things that got in the pen were a scrub jay and a brown towhee that slipped in under the chicken wire over the front end of the pen. We had forgotten to wire together a couple of sections at the overlaps and the posts we used to prop inside last winter to prevent the tarps from filling up overhead, lifted up the gap and made a couple of small openings on top. The poor birdies (on separate occasions) were freaking out, trying to get out. After the second time, we went back and wired the gaps shut, so nothing can get in from overhead, predator or not! Oh we have had a rat get inside the pen last winter, but it didn't do any damage or anything. I saw its little beadie eyes up on the top of the coop one night when it was dark out there. Not sure what it was doing there, but if the girls would've seen it, or it would've gotten in with them, I'm sure they would've chased it out or eaten it if they caught it!