"sherwindu" wrote in message
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I guess that's the answer I was looking for. I was not sure about the
timing of when
they would leave the nest.

Yup Freckles is right, leave it alone,!!!!
They'll be LONG gone by the time you need to get in there. Robins, and many
others, usually hatch around now, and once I raised a baby robin, tossed out
from nest for encephalitis, as per vet. Fixed it up with steroids and
antibiotics and it took me 6 weeks to feed, teach it to fly and find it's
own worms. My GR Rudy dog helped it dig for worms for weeks, hadda stop
that! Had teeny holes everywhere. The Robin finally got back with the 'clan'
and they migrated. Saw him again the following years! HE always flew down to
my finger and visited! For the next four years that I lived in that area.
They live to be about 17 or so I think, maybe a bit less, so I'm sure he's
still there. They do return to the same tree/area that they were hatched.
Was lots of fun, but I'm liscensed to do so, you can get in trouble for just
about ALL wild birds, don't have to be songbirds nor endangered, merely a
wild bird. It takes a LOT of time and commitment to 'adopt' a baby. Was a
lot of work, had to give up a lot of my time and life to that little guy,
was worth it in the end, watching him fly away with his 'clan'. (Can't say
it was his direct family as they had pushed him out for the disease.)

Whatever you do, NEVER ever, ever feed a baby bird bread soaked in milk!!!
This will kill them.
I keep 'baby bird food mix' handy at all times, and keep freshening up with
a new bag every once in awhile. Just in case. Even the baby robin needed
that before he could eat worms, as his mother would normally munch them up
for him, and I just wasn't that close.

MaryBeth

Freckles wrote:

"sherwindu" wrote in message
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Looked up today and spotted a nest at the top of one of my larger
semi-dwarf
apples. There was a 'robin size' black colored bird sitting in it, but
I
did
not approach closely to verify the species. I'm sure the nest is
rather
new,
say within the last two weeks, or so. Question is should I try moving
the
nest,
or just let it be? The tree is a Hudson Golden Gem with apples that
should be
ready for picking in September. I will have to go in there at that
time
to pick
the apples. If I chase away the mother bird now, and move the nest to
some
other high place like the top of my shed, will she find the nest again
and
not
desert it?

Sherwin D.
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Why do you want to move the nest?

They will be gone long before time for you to pick your apples.

If you attempt to move the nest now most birds will simply desert it.