Robins in my Lemon Tree

Morning to all, Well, we are enjoying the spring going into summer. Down at Nita's home, I watched a robin raise her little ones and watched them fledge from the back porch on a rainy day, the dove at the end of the porch still sitting on eggs when we left. Downstairs outside on the front of the house there is another robin sitting on her eggs on the latticework next to the walkway toward the porch. Just before we left we noticed that one of the eggs had hatched, so there goes another batch of robins, which will fledge before we get back down there, the doves also.

Here is a pic of the robin on top of the electric box and the dove is on the trellis just to the side of where the robin built.

 

When we got to OH. this time around we found our plants blown over and to my surprise was a robin nest and 4 broken eggs next to it on our driveway. So I picked up the plants ( one large lemon tree, and tree-shaped oleander) and picked up the nest and we wired it to the lemon tree. It just looked so cute there is the only reason I did it. Then a few days later Vince was going by on the riding mower and saw a bird fly away from the tree, so he went to take a look, and what to his and my surprise was a single robin egg in the nest. So we have now anchored the pot with heavy rocks on top of the pot and braced the sides so the wind can't blow it down again. So here we are with more robins coming along. This pot is perhaps 10 feet from the garage and we are out there off and on each day and so are the dogs, the robin does not seem too bothered by all this... So today it is raining and I know the robin is good and wet as the lemon tree does not have a lot of leaves to cover her very well, almost want to tie an umbrella over her-----I know I know that is going to far. WOW! Just went out to snap a pic and there was another egg. So she has 2 done and 2 more to go, lol Here is a pic of the lemon tree and the nest.

P.S. yes she left the nest and it is raining and you can see it; raindrops on the eggs. Now for the amazing part, Nita grew this lemon tree from a seed in W. V. She gave it to me when it was about 12 inches in height. I brought it home and planted it in a larger pot and over the years it has grown to this size. I pruned it way back last fall, was just getting too large to bring into the house.