Garage dad documents baby birds hatching, one begins to follow him around showing the beautiful connection between humans and nature

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Jun 2, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

The dads who protest the loudest against adopting animals are always the biggest softies. It's a tale as old as time, a song as old as rhyme: Dad says he "does not want more pets", then is presented with a baby animal, and then falls hopelessly in love with them. Well, usually it happens with a seriously fluffy kitten, or a wiggle-worm puppy that won't stop licking his face, but in today's story, it's about two lonely robin eggs that were hatching in his garage. 

He left a ladder near their nest and checked on them daily. He watched them every day until the day they could fly. You know what pawsitively magical thing happened next? One of the robins started following him around all summer. Just by checking on them daily, he made a connection with these baby birds. It shows that hoomans and animals can live in harmony, as long as we pay each other the respect we deserve. It's not hard, as long as we learn to listen.

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    Left a ladder out at my door. Got to see these babies every day until they could fly.

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    hailclo 8h ago Awwwww we live in the country and have 3 robins nest in our front. Just an hour ago saw one baby hopping along the grass - hope he can fly ! He's gone. now
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    That summer, there was a robin following me in the yard frequently - I think it was one of them.

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    • smalljpg 8h ago That's so wholesome, nature has a beautiful way of connecting with us sometimes.
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  • We're not the first people to shout from the rooftops how cute baby birds are. They look like hairless cats before they grow feathers. But to them, hoomans must look like big, hairless monkeys also! And this big, hairless monkey looked after them until they were big enough to leave the nest, and they paid him back with friendship.

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    Thuban 7h ago . It's funny when you're younger you don't really care or notice nature. Then as you get older you want a connection to other creatures because you realize people sk so bad.
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    jamisonian123 • 7h ago Amazing. Thank you for sharing
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    LabPitiful7644 :V
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    Brawladingo · 6h ago We had a hummingbird hatch her babies on top of one of outside lights. Was super cool to watch them grow.
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    EntoFan_ 6h ago What fun! You never know what you may see right outside your door.
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    APiqued 5h ago I swear there were 5 chickadee nests in my yard on the east coast one year. One day about 20 chickadee fledglings were in my back yard chattering for parents. and sticking to everything--
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    including window screens. My indoor cats were going bonkers. Another time we were visiting an historic home and were talking to some other visitors by a shed. This
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    BLUEBIRD kept flying around us (an EASTERN BLUEBIRD, not a blue jay; I know the difference and how to use a semi-colon). We finally investigated why the bluebird was flying around there and
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    found a nest in a knothole with a couple of eggs in it. Magical! We also had a robin's nest in the star magnolia in the front yard. I now live in an area that doesn't have a lot of small birds and I miss them.
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