The latest update about the garden Robins is good news.  The female is sat tightly on 5 eggs again and really tame and accustomed to me being around her nest box as I need to get out my lawn mower and tools from the tool shed!  I have hung a hopper, the sort that you would use for cage birds, on to the door just in front of her box and I can drop mealworms in to it without her getting upset and she remains on the eggs.  Then when I move away just a foot or so she will leave her clutch to come and eat a few before going back to carry on with her sitting.  She will also leave the box for short periods as well and on one of those absences I photographed the nest and it's contents……5 lovely eggs.  They are relatively large eggs for the size of the bird and according to the BTO fact sheet, each egg can weigh 4.7 grams. As the adult bird only weighs 18 grams, the clutch in total is  6 grams more than the bird that laid them!  She lays more than her total body weight in eggs in 5 days.  That's a lot of energy that the female robin has to fuel somehow.  

The male bird is taking care of the youngsters that fledged last week although I have rarely seen them but I am certain they are OK.  He will come and take mealworms one at a time, at least 10 in total  and disappear in to one of the two very overgrown bushes either side of the lawn.  I think the young birds are sheltering in these bushes either on the ground or deep in the foliage.  I am very surprised that they are not showing themselves though.  There will come time very soon when they will start to feed themselves and then I may get a look at them then.