Fledging occurs 14-16 days after hatching. There's no time to go far on a food hunt. That's why a good territory is important to robins in spring. Category People & … Named them Virginia and Carrollton. The female incubates the eggs over a two-week period and both parents care for the young. This the second installment about the nest that was built in my rose moss hanging basket this spring.

Nesting: Two broods of 3-5 blue-green eggs with a 12-14 day incubation period.

You should not expose robin eggs to extreme temperature changes or direct sunlight. Save your energy for other things and let nature have the egg. There's no time to go far on a food hunt. I discovered the nest while watering my plants and I watched every day to see them hatch. The nest is a mud cup lined with soft grass and reinforced with grass and twigs. The nest is usually placed in a tree, on a ledge, or on a windowsill." Plus, it might be dead already, and I don't think anyone on here knows the temps at which robin eggs need to be incubated. Place the lamp close to the box to keep the robin eggs warm. Robin eggs The female typically lays two to four light blue eggs - about the size and weight of a quarter (see photo).

A robin might make 100 feeding visits to its nest each day.

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My Robin Eggs Hatched! Robin Eggs Hatching Jeffrey Bacholzky. ... Two of the three robin eggs in the nest on my front door hatched today. Save your energy for other things and let nature have the egg. by Barbara Rodgers (Greenville, MS) Baby robins.