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CuriousGeorgina
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Name: CuriousGeorgina
Metro: Toronto
Birthday: 8/29/1964
Gender: Female
Interests: birding, writing, gardening, architecture, literature, history, blues music....
Expertise: editing, medieval history
Occupation: freelance editor
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12/6/2004
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| Nestling DevelopmentsHere's a slightly clearer picture of our robin acquaintance. She's putting up with us a bit more now that her eggs have hatched.
Robins ignore their first egg or two for a day after they are laid. Then they lay another egg or two. This way, they can be sure that all the eggs will hatch at basically the same time, giving all the hatchlings the best chance of survival. So, a couple of days ago, this situation obtained in the nest:
And then, next time we peeked:
Four absurd hatchlings! Can you even sort them out? They have dark eye capsules and darkish stubs where their wings will be. Have you ever seen such helpless little objects? Thank goodness for the robin mama, is all I can say.
We disturb the robin as little as possible, but once a day I have to open the front door (or come around the front) to get the newspaper and check my mail. So that's when my husband takes pictures. While he stretches up, standing on the porch railing and steadying the camera on the porch ceiling, the robin disapproves of us from a nearby tree branch, as follows:
I feel thoroughly Taken a Dim View Of, don't you?
CG
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| Vigilant MotherI have met brave robin mamas who will tolerate a fairly close approach, but this one, this spring, will take off to the nearby spruce tree at the smallest sign of us. So we took this indistinct shot of her through our closed front door and screen door -- and you can tell she is still wise to our lies!
Eggs ought to hatch soon.
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| I swear...... I did not Photoshop this! 
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| Happy Spring!Does that wish sound belated to you? If so, you live in a sunnier clime than mine. We only just got rid of the snow... but on a specially built platform high on my front porch wall, a robin just laid two beautiful eggs. So okay, it's spring now! 
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| Getting Cute with ChrisThere's an offbeat phenom on the Web these days, name of Chris Leavins, runs the fun known to a few of us as Cute with Chris.
Hmm, how did I find him? I think because I'm also a fan of Cute Overload. Yes, I freely admit that I like photos of cute puppies and kittens and, for that matter, hedgehogs and canaries and hamsters... but there's more to it, in both cases, than that. The value added is all in the host's personality, I'd say. It's all in the presentation.
Anyway... I have two tickets to Chris's upcoming show in Toronto. Yep, the Friday one. Guaranteed silly fun. And we get a free pen. And we will laugh!
I'm sure we'll be the oldest ones there...
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