Not important Prez news, but cute: pic of baby robins at WH

[Jennicut]

New additions to the W.H. press corps: A robin's nest tucked in a bush just outside the W.H. briefing room door has come to life.
Three baby robins, a couple of weeks old, look like they might be ready to fly soon.http://www.politico.com/politico44/

I think they would stay if they knew they were living at the White House!

[ClarkUSA]

1. It's kinda neat that the press corps has this softy side given how cynical they are.

[Jennicut]

2. How can anyone resist baby birds?

My daughters (3 and 4) were so excited last spring when my Mom had baby cardinals hatch in a tree right next to her house. They say and watched the birds every day, then eventually everyone flew off. They were so cute.

[ClarkUSA]

3. True... although we know there are some sick SOBs out there.

I have a cardinal male who wakes me every dawn with his constant attacks on his reflection on one of my bedroom windows.
This lasts 20 minutes or so, until the sun angles upwards over the window. Haven't seen any baby birds yet, though. Maybe
your kids will get lucky again this year. :)

[Cha]

4. Here's some earlier pics of the baby Robins

that I emailed to my job:)

http://blogs.usatoday.com/.a/6a00d83451b46269e20115704cb7c4970b-250wi
http://blogs.usatoday.com/.a/6a00d83451b46269e201156f568284970c-250wi

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/04/65982711/1?loc=interstitialskip

[Jennicut]

5. They were like newborns there! They are really growing up.

[Cha]

7. Such a neat sign of Spring~

I love the color of the Robin Blue Eggs.

[Inuca]

6. They look like scary little monsters in the early photo

I had a cardinal nest right in front of my door a couple of years ago. The mother got to the point where she almost did not mind us going in and out. I first saw the newly hatched babies when I came home and at first I thought that something had happened to the eggs, they looked absolutely awful, reddish skin and all. Took them a while to turn into adorable open-mouthed baby birds (no red plumage, or barely). And then they were gone. I still have the empty and perfectly build nest.

[Cha]

8. My friend at work says

the mama birds like to nest around the doors in people house's for whatever reason.

You still have a Nature's work art.:)

[Arugula Latte]

9. Sometimes birds' dinosaur ancestry is pretty evident.

Plumage does wonders! :)

[ClarkUSA]

10. Dinosaurs are not extinct. Technically.

Based on features of the skeleton, most people studying dinosaurs consider birds to be dinosaurs.

[Arugula Latte]

11. Oh, that's cool. I like the idea that they're still among us.

Except ... hmmm ... Mebbe ostriches will evolve into Aptosauruses in a few years.

:yoiks:

[ClarkUSA]

12. lol! Me too.

[applegrove]

13. Baby birds are so cute but darn if they don't make a huge mess underneath

their nest. I had some last year and the year before and I kinda miss my back deck from my old apartment. But that is all I miss from my old apartment.