But when he got there, the cupboard was bare... / myLot

By JJ

@JolietJake (50190)

May 5, 2016 1:28pm CST

Or the nest was empty.

Looks like all the baby sparrows have left.

Two left yesterday, and the two that were still there when I went to work this morning acted like they wouldn't be there long, and yep...I got home and they were gone too.

I hadn't even got around to naming them yet.

Bye bye birdies...

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Always smiling

@allknowing (146100)

• India

6 May 16

Atleast you saw them. I noticed a bird getting in and out of the ficus palm and when I peeped I saw a nest. A few days later the nest was empty. Wonder if it was just abandoned.

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Jennifer

@LovingMyBabies (85296)

• Valdosta, Georgia

6 May 16

Oh man, I'm sorry you missed them and didn't get to name them or say goodbye.

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Teep11

@Teep11 (7673)

• United States

6 May 16

Birds don't usually stay long. Perhaps they'll come back to visit. I'm sure that would make you happy.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44301)

• United States

5 May 16

They grew up fast. Wasn't it just the other day you put a picture of them on here? The parents will keep coming back there to nest and the baby birds when they mature, too. You are stuck with them, I think. You could give them honorary names.

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@JolietJake (50190)

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5 May 16

I probably won't be able to tell them apart from the two dozen others that come to the feeder each day...there are usually a couple nests under the carport each year, but I've only had one so far

Jo Ann

@akalinus (44301)

• United States

5 May 16

@JolietJake Those birds will probably get busy making another nest soon. We use to have a robin pair that made a nest on pine branches. The branches would fall down in storms and the nest would be on the ground with broken eggs/baby birds. I used to talk to the robins and beg them to make a nest somewhere safer. They always made another one on the closest branch to the one they lost. It made me so sad.

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@JolietJake (50190)

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5 May 16

@MALUSE Yes, we feed all year,

Scott Ganschow

@teamfreak16 (43418)

• Denver, Colorado

6 May 16

The homeless shelter I worked at in Wyoming had a robin's nest. It was sad when the baby left.

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Jay Kaur

@mavlana (1019)

• India

8 May 16

That's sad...birds will come to visit you...they are so free that they keep on changing their places,unlike us.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (174832)

• Boise, Idaho

5 May 16

We had crows in the trees around our old apartment about twenty years back now. The mom was trying to get the babies to fly. She would fly over to another tree and call to them. Then they would start in like as if to say "I'm trying mom. Oh, this is scary. Mommmmmm!" So it was very noisy in the neighborhood for about a week until she got those babes to fly.

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bonnie

@bunnybon7 (50970)

• Holiday, Florida

5 May 16

cute. out into the vast scary world. so sorry you have an "empty nest"

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savak03

@savak03 (6684)

• United States

5 May 16

When you are a bird you have to grow up fast. Parent birds are notorious for pushing the little ones out of the nest. Humans should take a lesson, then they wouldn't have those grown kids sitting around doing nothing but making more babies and expecting the grandparents to raise them.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

6 May 16

ah you missed the early flights! how sad

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