17 June
When I looked out of the kitchen window at 6:20 a.m. today the nest was empty. The last chick has fledged. It's a safe bet the other two chicks fledged yesterday amid all the gutter-cleaning chaos.
Jack kept an eye on the nest all day today. Nobody came back.
Wikipedia has a good summary of the robin's breeding habits. The nest we've been following was probably the second brood of the season. Chicks take two weeks from hatching to fledging, and nestmates fledge within two days of each other.
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