The heavy, heavy rain that blew through south Bismarck today was a real eye-opener to the new robins in our yard! I was washing dishes when my 18 month old boy called to me, yelling “bird!” in baby-talk and pointing out the window of the screen door. I toweled off and came over to see what he was so excited about, and found this little guy huddled on our railing. He was fluffing his feathers over and over to get rid of some of that nasty rain. After a very short while (before I could really get the camera set properly) he was gone. He flew away in an unknown direction while I changed out the mostly-dead batteries in my flash unit.

It’s good to know that some of our baby robins survived. Hopefully they’ll grow up quickly and have a happy home here. I’m grateful he didn’t have to endure a hailstorm at this point in his early bird life!