What your doing is fine, just limit the dogs access. Most birds have limited flying ability when they fledge and must survive a day or two on the ground before they master flying. Some birds routinely fledge up to a week before the can fly. Whats a parent to do, you can't tell teenagers nothing? They already know everything and yet they some how survive.

It's better to allow the babies to explore on their own; the parents will take good care of them, and eventually, they will be lured into a bush for safety until they attain complete flight. Keep in mind, too, that only about 1% of this year's offspring (in the wild) will survive their first year. So far, it sounds like you're doing great; don't feel like a failure; if there had been a fox, weasel, squirrel, bobcat, jay, crow, or other natural predator around, the parents would have still found a way to protect most if not all, of their babies.

Thank you so much for responding. I am not allowing the dogs to be out without supervision.
Thank you again for your quick response. I feel so much better now.
cdm

Our Robins, which up to this year have been nesting twice a year on our deck, decided to nest 3 ft from the ground in the honeysuckle by the horse pasture.

Now that the babies have hatched, my new shelter Jack Russell terrier that we recently adopted, can hear the sounds and springs into action, trying to leap up and grab the nest. It is wrapped in honeysuckle, but that little hunt terrier is a highly energetic vermin hunter. So far I've stopped him before he got very far, and let him know he's NOT to bother the nest, but it's an extra worry to me that I have to keep tight watch on Jasper until the babies can fly. I keep him in the house or on the fenced deck when he's not with me, but that's a long time for us not to make a mistake and let him out of our sight.

I grumbled to DuBois that building a nest so low was unwise and that I wish those Robins had used the old nest on the deck beams again so the babies would be safer. But with Jasper on the deck so much, the fledglings would have to be quick even then