If you place food items such as raisins, cherries, grapes, apples, and bread on a low platform feeder or on the ground, you may be able to lure some robins into your yard. And since robins often build their nests on man-made structures such as ledges and windowsills, you may have more chances than you think to see three or four gorgeous blue robin eggs in one of these nests from time to time.
Mathew Tekulsky writes a regular column about birding in his backyard and neighborhood in Bel Air, California. You can follow his encounters with the birds of the Santa Monica Mountains here on National Geographic News Bird Watcher every fortnight or so.
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