We are home from our trip... to some Very sad news.

We have been gone on our trip since Friday afternoon Aspen Grove. We came home today around 1... and one of the first things that i wanted to do-was to check on my baby Robins. I checked on them as the Very Last thing that we did before we left on Friday. In fact i still have some pictures from Friday that i have not posted yet.

We were gone all day Saturday, so we missed seeing them.

As soon as i went out there today, with camera in hand to check on them, i noticed that something was different. Usually the very first thing that i see is either one or both of the mommy and pappa Robin's. I looked up, and didn't see either one of them. As i looked closer... I didn't see the Nest!!! ??? I felt like i was in the twilight zone!! I looked again, thinking that maybe i was looking in the wrong spot? I climbed up the tree... No nest! I couldn't believe it! I hoped right back down, thinking that maybe it was on the ground...

I looked around for a quick second, and then looked up again in the tree from the other side. There it was. I spotted the nest. It was in a totally different spot! It was in a spot, much lower to the ground then before.

I climbed up the tree, (mind you... momma and pappa Robin are still no where to be seen! which was highly unusual! They are so protective!) not expecting to see my babies in the nest. It had been moved and i did not know how or why! However... when i got to the nest, i found that all four of them were in the nest, but to my complete horror not one of my four babies were alive.

I felt the biggest knot well up in my throat and stomach. Even typing this... I am choking up. I think that the saddest part for me right now is that i just simply have No Idea what happened! I even feel a little bit guilty for not being here on Saturday. I know... doesnt that seem silly? but not knowing what happened... just really has me torn up inside. I don't even know what happened, or if I were here... if there would have been anything that i could have done to help. I just don't know.

It was pretty stormy last week. I don't know if maybe the wind caught hold of the nest and blew it down? and then my neighbor maybe tried to put it back up there? I just don't know. All four babies are STILL in the nest. All four of them. So i just don't know! OH! I am just sick about it!

If it were a cat or something... then i would expect that all four of the babies to not be in the nest. Even if it fell out of the tree, i would almost expect to not have all four of the babies there.

Rich was here this weekend, taking care of Scamp. He also mowed my lawn (thanks Rich-looks great!) and so i called him right away to ask him if maybe he had seen the nest on the ground while he was mowing and then he put it back up in the tree. He said 'No', that he 'didn't notice it.'

We have also asked the neighbor boys, and they didn't seem to know anything about it. I just don't think that it was them either. They are just not the type of boys to get into mischief or trouble like that. They wouldn't have done anything to harm them. I just almost hoped that they knew of something.

I am just so sad! Is it silly for me to feel this emotional about six little birds? Four babies and now even the mommy and pappa aren't around. We did see two Robin's on my rooftop, but can't be sure that it is them. We were near the tree, and they didn't even come near us or make a cumotion.

I am so sad that they can't finish their journey. I was so excited to be able to watch them grow up and leave the nest. For as fast as they were changing... I am guessing something/whatever happened on either Friday night or Saturday morning because the way they look right now, they look the same as they did when we left Friday afternoon. They hadn't changed much.

I am just so sad that i have no idea what happened... and that i wasn't here yesterday.

I hope that momma & pappa Robin will come back to my apple tree next year to make their home again. We have enjoyed so much watching them create their family.

I do have some more wonderful and fun things to post about our trip this weekend that i will post about soon. I just wanted to come in and post about our very sad discovery. It kinda took the wind out of my sails-so i will post more happy things soon.