I love that you want to prevent them from getting hurt! But I think you should leave her alone. The main reason they jump out of the nest too early is when they are frightened, so steering clear for the next few weeks is the best plan.

As Elly said, leave well alone, they'll be just fine, as for the cement roller it presses the soil down when starting a new lawn.

Thanks to the both of you. I guess I was just getting a little paranoid, but better safe than sorry I figured. There's been a lot of rain here lately so they have been gobbling up a lot of earthworms. I have a webcam pointed out my window at the nest and I am always watching it on my second monitor on my computer. I'm new to bird watching, and just seeing almost every daily aspect live around the nest area has actually been pretty entertaining. I've even seen the very rare appearance of the male robin only three times now for maybe two or three minutes. Every half hour or so I see the mother stand up to rotate the eggs and then shuffle herself back onto them lol. I've seen a few squirrels directly near the nest area so I'm hoping that they don't get to the babies once they are hatched. I kind of feel like I have "pet" robins now and want to really take care of them and make sure that they survive, and hopefully make another nest nearby. :D

looks like your off to a great start, but try not to get too emotional, because Mother Nature can be cruel at times

So how are the robins doing now? We definitely need an update since you have that webcam and can see everyting:-)

I'm happy to say that the Robins are currently doing very well. I've seen the dad chase off a chipmunk a few times but I think they should be fine.

Well... cruel mother nature has struck. Last night I heard a rumbling outside my window and I shined a light to see a raccoon outside looking for food. The robin and the nest were still there at the time. However, after waking up and looking for the nest today, it was knocked down to the ground and there were no Robin's to be found. The babies were only born about 3-4 days ago too. I was enjoying watching the pair of adult Robin's feed them every day. Hopefully at least the parents survived and can try again somewhere.

Blasman, that was exactly my experience with robins this year. Every year they build a new nest under my deck. This year was no exception. But one day, I noticed one evening a raccoon lurking under the deck. I shooed him and he run away to the forest, but he probably spotted and remembered the location of the nest and came at night to have a snack. In the morning, the nest was empty. Baby robins were 7 days old.

We had a robin build a nest under our deck one year. Same area (near the ceiling) where your robins built their nest!

The 2 babies fledged and left in good shape. We took care not to approach or bother them.

I would put mealworms out for them away from the nest. The parents would watch for me. Sometimes the father would trot up and look at me while I was watering the flowers. MORE MEALWORMS please!

The parents did not return the following year. I think it was because raccoons and groundhogs started coming around for the bird food and worms.

I used to store peanuts in a plastic garbage can out on the deck. One night a creature chewed a hole in the lid. I didn't know what kind of animal was doing this so I replaced it with a metal can/metal lid and wrapped a chain over it. The next day the ungrateful beast had urinated all over it! I stopped storing the peanuts (any food) on the deck.

I also had to cut back on the number and type of bird feeders because they were climbing on these and knocking the food out. No more mealworms either as raccoons and groundhogs like these as well.

We finally had to hire a trapper. The groundhogs were tunneling under our deck and I didn't like how bold the raccoons were becoming. The trapper advised us to seal all the open areas (lattice) around our deck to prevent future invasions.

We trapped several raccoons and groundhogs, a skunk and a couple of squirrels and a rabbit. We released the squirrels and rabbit.

I would like to mention that the trapper said trapped squirrels can be so desperate to get loose, that they will frequently break their necks trying to get out of these Havahart traps. The ones we had trapped didn't do this because we were checking the traps 3x a day and didn't give them a lot of time to worry themselves to death. Chipmunks were also a problem this year.

Our neighbor said he had caught 15 of them this year alone. Did you know that chipmunks can weaken your foundation/sidewalks? Now I know why a section of our front sidewalk dropped.....:(

I'm hoping the robins will try again next year.