Two down, two to go

Photo by Emily Blethen

Grandpa! Grandpa! Two of them have hatched! Come see!
Sure enough, two of our four robin eggs hatched this afternoon, with the fledglings still but fuzzy globs beside the two laggards. We hurried downstairs for a quick closeup look, Emily nervously keeping an eye on the mother robin a few yards away.
"She won't peck you, Emily, really, she's just concerned that we're getting too close, so we'll leave now."

Emily got a Flicker for her eighth birthday May 1 and brought it along today for a romp on the tarmac.

We found the fragile remains of an eggshell a few feet away.