FFS

So, I go out and there's this robin just standing in the hanging feeder looking half dead. All fluffed up, not very responsive, feathers missing around the eye.

I was freaked out. Then it flew and I thought... oh... and I realised that it was wet... they look very bedraggled when wet.

Then there were two robins alarming in the front lilac.

Suddenly I knew.

I went to the back of the garden. No feeding. No cheeping.

Finally I went to look. Two tiny bodies. With feathers, but the eyes not yet open. They were not even cold, but they were dead.

I turned and both parents were watching me.

That was it. They haven't to my knowledge been near the nest since.

Falco is singing again. I saw the two of them were consorting over by the pub and I think Falca's started a new nest. They looked normal.

I saw a robin on the back lilac... Falco?

And another foraging.... which may have been Tane...

But then, when I went to go back inside this poorly looking robin was by the kitchen door. I am confused and upset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVrtYWdt5M

Memories of happier times... just the day before... Falco with a worm for babies...

Falca keeping a careful watch...