Me and timberwolf found a robin busilly making her nest in the barn. She was near the door, but so long as we didnt go too close she ignored us. Not wanting to move the nest or risk upseting her, we'd always left her alone, not bothering to check on her more than a vague look in from a distance.

Every day we'd see her coming and going, until a few days ago... she just stopped coming back to her nest.... Today timberwolf decided to check the nest as she had hadn't seen the mother in a while. She found 4 little baby robin mouths all desperatly looking for food.

Unable to leave the little ones alone in the barn to starve to death, we have taken them into the house. They are now in a spare glass vivarium with a little bit of heat coming in from a heat mat, and Reiyuu has started them on a half hourly feeding routine, of which they have happily eaten mushed up mealworm.

We plan on growing them on enough so that they can be let loose into the wild asap! We dont want pet robins, we just want them to have a chance at life seeing as their mother has flown the nest

I'm sure I'm going to get no end of people saying that we shouldnt have taken them in, we should have left them, that we shouldn't have disturbed the nest in the hope that the mother would come back in another few days, but I think the 3-4 days since we've seen the mother is enough to say that her babies were at risk. So, if you really want to flame me go ahead, but I for one can not let a life go when I can possibly do something to save them.

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Don't blame you at all-would of done the same-nice one

and me too, i cut down a tree once and didn't realise there was a nest..... the mum didn't return so the babies went to the vet and they fed them up till they were ready to leave.

have also come across plenty of injured animals and have taken them to the vet.....they are used to me now

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They have now had 2 feeds of mashed mealies and a little luke warm water. they have now settled in for the night under a black shirt to mimck night time. They will be woken at 8 tomorrow morning with a breakfast of mashed mealies and waxies with vitamin and mineral supplements as has been suggested on a couple of bird sites in their sections on raising baby birds of brittish native species.

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aww good luck with them!

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Well done for giving them a chance, hope all goes well with them.

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Thats so sweet i dont blame ya i think i would have had to do the same too good on ya for helping them out

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I would have done the same as well, my mum would have as well,

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Absolutely not!! How could you leave them out there to starve to death?

You've totally done the right thing. If something has happened to the mother, then the chicks would die - instead you are giving them a chance of a life. If, on the other hand, nothing has happened and the robin does come back and they are gone, she'll go on and have another clutch of eggs. So then you have 2 lots of babies added to the robin population.

At the Sanctuary where I work we get loads of nests of babies brought it. Once they've grown on a bit and we come to feed them, we find they stand on the edge of the nest and flap their wings, feeling their way towards flying and that means they're nearly ready to release.

Once they can fly we carry them outside and let them fly off from our hands. If you are only feeding and not handling they'll release great.

Good on you for doing this

Please keep us updated with their progress and some piccies would be great!!!

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Leyla - our beautiful sorrel somali, put to sleep aged 16½ to prevent further suffering

Sadly 4 became 3 as the runt of the cluch died. It did eat last night but refused this mornings feed [feeding hourly through the daylight hours]

They have come to work with me with a heat mat and stat n their little nest in an exo terra to continue their feeding. The 2 gannets I hold high hopes for but the third still seems a little lethargig but we'll see how things turn out.

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