Robins born at White House

[RamboLiberal]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is a story about a fledgeling family at America's most famous address, an inspiring saga about new beginnings, the audacity of hope and perhaps even dreams from a father.

More specifically, it's about a robin's nest.

Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds first spotted the bird, flitting into and out of a bush immediately to the left of the main door to the White House press briefing room -- the room seen on TV most days, the one with the bright lights in which Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gets his daily grilling.

It's a hugely high-traffic location, with reporters coming and going at all hours, and camera crews traipsing past, lugging tripods, lights and other heavy equipment out to the North Lawn.

Yet the female robin seemed utterly oblivious to it all -- fearless, even. And soon, Edmonds, who heads The AP's White House photo staff and is a Pulitzer Prize-winner with an eagle eye (sorry about that), figured out why. This red-breasted mom was moments from hatching half a dozen chicks.

So Edmonds set up his tripod early one morning and took a series of remarkable photographs. They show the pale blue eggs cracking and the chicks emerging, squinting, into the spring sunshine.

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

[polichick]

1. Awwww :)

[gblady]

2. great pictures of those baby birds.....

thanks for sharing...
Love the glories of Spring!

[Cha]

8. It's especially glorious

this Spring~:party:

[AtomicKitten]

3. The original tweeters.

[elleng]

4. Lovely story!

Anyone remember our Ducklings???

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=692218n

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=d2ea35f2-2b10-411c-b3d6-a06dd1a1dca8

[kestrel91316]

5. Great, except birds aren't "born". They are "hatched".

[RamboLiberal]

6. Tell that to USA Today

I took their headline and changed to White House instead of West Wing.

It's Friday and I too damn tired to care about born or hatched.

[WinkyDink]

10. The mass media employees aren't the swiftest.

[Cha]

7. If those aren't the Bluest of Robin's Eggs!

How suh weet is this story captured on Ron Edmonds camera!

It's a story of Red and Blue with wide open, hungry mouths to feed.

[Raine]

9. AW

so sweet. :loveya:

[Clio the Leo]

11. "How very special are we, for just a moment to be......

.... part of life's eternal rhyme. How very special are we, to have on our family tree, Mother Earth and Father Time...."

[roguevalley]

12. rachel showed them yesterday. such cuties! Go, be free some day

and come back and hatch your chickies at the White House next year. My dad loved hummingbirds and had them at his house as a child. their eggs are as big as peas. :-D

[Clio the Leo]

13. Now them humming "birds" are just giant bugs....

... I keep trying to tell my mother that. :)

She swears they're actual birds, but I'm not convinced. lol

[roguevalley]

14. check out this bird

http://www.maniacworld.com/bird-loves-ray-charles.html