Robin's Nest - Baby birds with not so happy ending
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- A pair of robins hatch two chicks only to see a visit from a crow. Not happy for the Robins. Nature's way.
Some answers to FAQs...
How it was recorded: This was an unattended camera that only recorded when motion was detected. I set it up and let it run. Every time someone would come to our front door, the parent bird would scramble from the nest startling the visitor. When this did not happen for a couple days, I checked the nest and saw it was empty. I had no idea why until I checked the footage.
Why didn't you stop the crow? Until I retrieved the camera and checked the footage, I did not know a crow was involved. The camera was unattended and not being viewed live.
Did the Mama come back? Two days elapsed from when the crow took the last baby and I retrieved the camera and stopped recording. No footage of either parent robin was found in that two day period. So either the mama did not come back, or she did, but saw the empty nest our of the camera's field of view.
How can you tell mom and dad apart? I took a different video of this set of parents earlier in the spring when they nested under my deck. ("Robin Nest... Day 7") Mom is a bit fatter and sits on the nest. Dad is a bit thinner. All those babies grew old enough to leave the nest.
What's the white thing they eat? Fecal sack. Yep - it's gross but it keeps the nest clean. More clearly seen on my other video taken from a different nest earlier in the year. ("Robin Nest... Day 7")
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Surviving sibling: I will have all the food henceforth.
Crow: in your dreams!
Crow: please do! Fatten yourself up for my own chicks!
Crow in the nest... Eats 2 in the bush!
Crows are among one of the smartest birds.
Yes, they are. Parrots are up there too.
@@georgesealy4706 Ravens as well
Yup
good when dead
Yep, it’s intelligence is like that of a 7 yr old.
I am a poultry farmer and I actually have crow feeding stations on each corner of my farm. They set up a territory and raise their families and protect them from preditory birds such as Hawks. My farm becomes highly protected from the birds that prey on my poultry. It's really neat watching them mob Hawks way bigger then them. They are my farmhands and I pay them in cracked corn. So I happen to like crows. 😉
Are the crows still around?
Imteresting! Thanks for sharing
Good for you. Cool information!! Thanks
Learn something new everyday. Good on ya bruddah
In the video, the crow was eating chicks but in your farm the crow does not eating chicks?
That spider passing by in the middle of the night was a bad omen. Creeeeepy. lol
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be"
-Thanos
Mega Bitchnite Epic Mineblox Esketit now i can just imagine a purple crow with an infinity gauntlet
Nah Thanos would've took only 1 chick
Thanos would have taken only 1 chick
😂 you stupid
TIL Thanos supports illegal chick trafficking by crows.
Sparrow picks innocent worm to feed baby sparrow, Crow picks innocent baby sparrow to feed baby crow. Circle of life.
Its a red breasted robin, not a sparrow. Just thought id clarify
@Jigov Xenu.... if you're a scientology wackjob
@Jigov Jigov - virus, bacteria, diseases in general are what "prey" upon humans because we're now on the top of the food chain. BTW, the "material body" is also energy but in physical form (E=MC^2 and all that). The "energy" goes back into the biosystem, just like everything else.
@Luis Gustavo Well, I'm sorry to have tried to give some further insight into how Reality works, but if you choose to remain ignorant, I certainly can't help you with that. Perhaps a good psychiatrist could help you, but then again, with your attitude, probably not.
@@Destraight not even that. It's an American Robin. Which in itself is a stupid name cause they're actually a thrush
Ron finally lost it, he took his sick vengeance upon becky’s and ben’s newborn babies. He just wanted to smash.
The Jonavic He will now smash their babies, Becn and Kecn. He will then smash their eggs, and will abduct Becky and rape her instead of a simple smash.
Godzilla and Friends [KAIJU BUDDIES ALT] and it was all because she didn’t want some fuk
Mentally confused
LOL love this ref
It's sad but
Mufasa said that's the
"Circle of Life"
just a normal life well you see what that got him an early death, and he wanted help!!! but asked the wrong lion, Kane said sorry bro it's just the circle of life.
It is not sad.
I didn't know crows raided nests like this! Fascinating.
Once it figured out it could get to the snack bin, that was that.
So I have a family of 5 crows in my backyard that over the past year I've become quite attached to They just recently built a new nest in one of our trees and there are eggs in it. I've been so excited about it for the past couple days until yesterday and today after seeing hawks and eagles circling the nest and dive bombing. It's made me a nervous wreck. And now I see this video and I guess it has put things back in perspective for me. That's the way of the wild and I just need to hope for the best
Irene Younger measure to no intervene
You should eat them for this robin.
Ooof.. don't look up videos of what the Eagles do to the babies before they feed them to their young.. eagles are vicious
@@sandmancesar these babies died by one certain crow the others have nothing to do with it
Lord Freeza oh really? I thought all crows knew each other.
"I'll take one, ... No,no, make that TWO chickadee nuggets, and a flight"
I love that spider thats funny
Dalynn Sprotte what spider fuckwit go get your eyes checked muppet
Gaz Girl go get your eyes checked dumass. Dont talk to my children like that fucking scumbag
people really have to calm down; wow, didn't expect so much shitposting on documentaries...
Maybe you should keep an eye on your kids when they are on the internet
Gaz Girl get ur eyes checked,there is plainly a spider there
The crow was probably feeding its own chicks
Yuuuup. Isn't nature lovely. One bird killing another birds offspring in order to feed it's own.
Imma go cook some veal, this is making me hungry.
@@PumpkinHoardlovely? Is that so?
No wonder why there are humans eating another humans.....
Yes can be
@@christiangregorio26 man this is nature birds are killing other birds. But when were hurting birds or other animals thats another bad thing
@@MexicanRaiden no wonder why animals are better than human
Crow is smart. He waited for them to get a bit bigger before taking them
Once again, a cunning and intelligent bird dominates over humble bird.
I miss BBC videos about snakes. Love the way serpent shows its superiority over vermin like rats and mouses.
LOL People seriously getting mad at the crow for being a crow basically. Geez. I'm surprised someone hasn't called the person who posted the video a murderer for not doing something. Reality is slipping away from the world.
Freak
Russian bot?
Considering how fast robins breed this might be more beneficial to nature then it is to the crow
Lol nature is fun. Hey it was a happy ending, the crow got a good meal!
sniperammow the crow and her babies
Yeah..life is like that..in order for others to get happy and successful, one must suffered or experience failure. if there is a winner, you could say there is also a looser. Take that video for example, happy ending for the crow and horrible ending for the robin.tsk..tsk..life at its finest.love it so much.
good, so I don't need to feel bad for what happens to you
When you realise the Crow patiently waited for the eggs to hatch 🤔
at the end i wanted to see the parents reaction of their baby being dead
Birds and most wildlife do not exhibit the emotional attachment to losing their young that humans do. The more evolved and intelligent a species the more likely it will experience signs of distress at the loss of their young. There are some birds that do exhibit apparent panic when their young is mysteriously gone.
And I will add that several other animals do exhibit a sense of loss at the death of one of their kin. Elephants, monkeys and the great apes especially.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 dogs and cats especially Express emotions from losing their own whether it's their own young or owner they can Express emotions like us
🤡
Lol! Talk about fast food.
Nate V lmao
Gray Jedi crow= boonk gang
Nate V 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
It’s a bloodied, ornithological mess, dude. Nothing to do with fast food.
Oh, shit. It’s Red Robin’s.
Nate V omg that was good
The ending was happy, for the crow. Everything in life can't always have a happy ending. In fact, few things do.
think of all the grubs and insects that the robin was feeding the chicks. Those were somebody's relatives
True, sink of Titanic is a happy ending for those live lobster in the kitchen
There is happy ending just different perspective
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. -Isaac Newton
Freak
Me and my friends rescued a baby robin that fell from its nest. We couldn’t find her nest so we took her in. I told them to put her in the shed but nope “It’s too cold!” she was killed in the thunderstorm. R.i.p Gertrude. I love you.
For all the crow haters. We never see him eat them. He probably just abducted them to give them better lives.
Spinosaurus4ever
Hahaha too funny
Spinosaurus4ever XD
Spinosaurus4ever law and order
Living in a real tree, instead of a shitty and dirty small nest
Pink Flo hey hes a jurassic fan
Crow: Red Robin! YUM!
Damn
I like it how the bird's like 'nom' and steals the chicks. XD
Now I understand why the robins and other birds are always screaming in the trees near my creek. I figured that there was probably a hawk or other related species in the trees as I know there was one there at one time. Never thought about the crows eating the babies.
The robins always seem to want to make a nest under my deck or near the canopy roof. I keep chasing them away because I'm constantly walking near there and they'd just get upset. This year I tried moving one of the nests that had eggs in it, but I'm not sure what happened.
Last year I had a song sparrow (?) nest outside in one of the shelves where I keep the herb pots. She was in a bad spot so I moved her nest over next to the wall of the house where she'd be safer. There were eggs in the nest, which I did not touch. She came back to the new spot, sat on the eggs and as I passed by she didn't move, just looked at me. Every day when I walked passed there I'd look in on her (I couldn't have been more than a foot away from her) and she never moved off that nest, except to get food, and never seemed to be bothered by my talking to her. I left her a shallow dish of water. Eventually, the eggs hatched and she had four baby birds there. I took pictures of them when she went off to get food, but never touched them. Then, one day, they were all gone and haven't come back, but I still have the pics of the baby birds.
@Dre Thomas WTF? You "got" that "I'm gay" from my story? Please. See a good psychiatrist. BTW, I'm not gay, nor straight. I'm simply very disinterested.
I wanted the mum to come back and look devastated
JD21 true facts
Your a Ghoul 🤒
Exactly what I was thinking.
mastergee200 you're
ruckus jr awesome
The symphony of nature in motion.
Incredible EvIdence, this is incredible research it’s fantastic how much robin behavior is shown here.
Awesome video, I really liked the captions that explained what was going on. Helped me understand what was happening a whole lot better!
It’s sad, but it’s nature.
Crows are very smart birds they earned my praise after the wallaby video they eat the ticks
5:28 That's one brave spider to crawl to a bird's nest. Haha!
For all people who are saying "its nature, let it be, do not intervene". I would also like to remind you that humans are also part of nature. What if something attack you or your family , it might be your fellow human or a ferocious animal, wouldn't you be glad that someone witnessing the situation would come and help you or you would say, "oh its nature..killing/attacking is a common thing, its part of life..so ignore what you are witnessing and leave..leave me alone ". is that what you truly wanted humans? all am saying is think before saying "its nature, you know".you are saying those things because you were not in that desperate situation, you were not involved . animals can appreciate help too..if you must know that. some animals in the wilds are fighting with their very best to stay alive, desperately waiting for back up. in these situation, it seems unfair to other side if you intervene but that's how it is. after all you cannot guard that particular animal prey all the time, it could lucky at this time, tomorrow maybe not..well that is.. nature..however if you could help it to live even just one more day..why not? if your principle is not to help the animal in distress then why we are compelled to help our fellow human who were in danger? that is also part of nature you know. danger is part of our world, its nature. got attacked by murderers,(human predators) or by other animals in the wild. seriously people?! nature?when you are in danger, you are desperately seeking help from others. don't you think it is the same with other species?
I had always heard that this happens. They feed them to their own chicks.
I love that everyone gets butthurt over a crow doing what it does. Like how do you think other animals eat? Lions kill zebra, smaller cats like lynx kill the cute fluffy mice,
Its nature yah idiots. Weither its a crow eating babies or a lion eating a zebra they are only doing wjat instinct and hunger tell them to do. Get over it.
Artsy Scrub
thegreatwhitenorth
Well birdhouses often help populations but yeah, they wanna whine and complain about natural things because something cute is being eatten. Newsflash cute things get eaten all the damn time.
Just yesterday i saw a cat kill a bunny, am i gonna go on a rampage and kill all cats? No im not because one i own a cat, two if it were in a forest is probably would have done the same thing. Enviorment doesnt change the instincts, its all nature all things die and predators need to eat and feed their families...
Artsy Scrub whether*
Jk but u r right
Lol your instict is grammar?
And you're bitching isn't any better. Just because it's natural, doesn't mean it's pleasant and people can express their dislike for it.
The robin should have known the crow would be back for the last baby once the nest was discovered.
It is too stupid to understand it. It will just make another clutch when this one is gone. Quantity over quality.
Given the effort and time it takes to build or find another nest, by the time your nest location has been compromised it's too late. As with the above comment, more efficient to just wait til next time.
Momma dipped real quick when that crow came around
Lol that's why moms need to stay at home
I'm gonna assume she was joking...
T’was a joke mon frere
If the mother bird stayed, she would also be eaten. I have seen crows taking down cats and eating them.
Dorothy Robnik on that is just bullshit, are you 12
Moon man Obviously I am not, I myself might question your age and maturity based on your comment, but regardless of that, yes I did witness 2 crows, maybe ravens ganging up on a cat. Last week I saw one eating a pigeon, but it was already dead.
What I did
1. Put headphones on
2. Puts volume up
3. Puts the circle of life
The one baby robin grew up and became The Crow Killer
Ronin 77 The crow took both Robin chicks...
He didn't die. The crow dropped him and left him for dead, but the baby robin survived. He then trained in the woods and got into numerous adventures, honing his deadly skills all the while. When he achieved adulthood, he hunted down and slayed the crow and its entire family
Ronin 77
I'm the one who trained the chick though I think it thought it was its mum even though I am galaxy wolf
He became Robin Hood.
Ronin 77 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😭
Thanks for the details. Telling us as it unfold.
The robins will learn to put their nest more undercover. I have seen them in real tight hedges were crows or jays wouldn't go. They also love ledges under roofs were crows might not go into. Robins will often team up and attack a predatory bird in their area. they have a distinct alarm call and I can tell a cat or crow is in their area.
They have a hard enough time realizing their young were devoured by a predator, with continued visits to the empty nest after the fact. Might be expecting too much for them to show an advancement in problem solving intelligence.
Lmao he picks it up so casually
The crow brought them to heaven.
Gone, but not forgotten !
Do you think it was the same crow from earlier? If so, do think it knew to wait for the eggs to hatch and get fat before eating?
Muffin Top
Probably the same crow since it had no trouble working it's way to the nest the second time.
Corvids are smart - this one was likely drawn initially by the activity of the parents. It knew there was one more hatchling in the nest and specifically returned for it. confirmed by the parents activity.
Mums are so grateful. They dont even move if its rain heavily. I used to use armbrella to cover her on top and mum just look up and watching me. Didnt even move.
0433elva ah yes, mums are so grateful, they fly away from their defenseless children when a crow comes along
I think we all knew what was gonna happen when it said ‘More from him later’ 😩
Been studying birds for decades. Crows are basically very smart assholes, who will eat anything in sight.
They are massive destroyers of nests, especially songbird nests.
It disturbs me that the first reaction of that parent bird, when she sense the crow, is to flee. Unlike many other parents with young, she
doesn't stand her ground and fight.
How do you tell the mom and the dad apart?
Saggalous Mmwamow Dad is a little bit bigger with a brighter chest and Mom is a bit duller with brown tints
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Vladimir Putin i thought i saw at one scene mum had saggy tits while dad is smaller because he doesnt have tits
XYgaming Lol
That bird went Robbin
where the hell was the father robin in all of this?!, why wasn't he there to fend off that damn crow!
Yeah right, so it's gonna be like cat (Robin) vs tiger (crow).
@@moileung 😁😁
Probably out getting food for his chicks, only to come home with them all gone...
And even if he was there, I highly doubt he would fought off that crow....
@@snifflepanda4884 well this, THIS is why birds like them have such low intelligence, some of them fail to do their part in taking care of their chicks, or even fail to prevent predatory birds from taking them away to be eaten, if there were genetically enhanced birds like the robins, they would be smart enough to prevent any of that from happening, there's a reason we call them birdbrains in the first place, cause their brains ate the size of a fucking pea!
@@pauljordan0203 Sorry Paul, but that is NOT why birds like them have such low intelligence. Robins are like many bird species in the world are extremely successful as a species. They don't need to be highly intelligent to be successful as a species. In other words your perspective is skewed! Other bird species have evolved to be more intelligent such as crows or ravens. But nevertheless there has been a balance in nature between all forms of life. That is until humans came along.
Now compare the birds like robins whom you call having low intelligence to that of humans. Humans like to think of themselves as the most intelligent animal in the world. But this much vaunted intelligence while enabling humans to create a highly technological world has also created a world of extreme inequalities with countless millions living in extreme poverty, continuous wars, environmental degradation and much more which serves to degrade the habitats of wildlife and thereby the wildlife themselves.
The moral of this story is that humans have little to brag about when their actions are leading the world to yet another great extinction.
I legit can't stand when mom or dad does not even try to put up even a little fight...
The robin as a species is very successful and not threatened although that might change as the climate warms further. Also robins apparently haven't needed to evolve a behavior to counter predators like crows anyway. They are just a pair of birds anyway not like some bird that roost in colonies which is in part for protection.
So to dwell on what one bird does or doesn't do really misses the big picture.
Ppl actually getting ANGRY at fcking nature 😂
-When humans who were given the gift of life, get mad at how life works 🤔
wtf?
Caring about birds even though they don't care about you and you still care for them
Crows are so cute omg 😍
Freak
Can't tell if Russian bot or just clown
@@slvrshore5300 bruh this comment was from 4 years ago, I’ve changed. Now I see the error of my ways. Crow are actually SUPER cute omg 😍
Did not know crows did this. Now I know why they call it a Murder of Crows.
all those who would kill the crow...they dont realise its some lil birdy dad or mom...its food chain....each gets their turn MOTHER NATURE REALITIES!!!
Damn crow. The parents didn't even try to save the babies!
Lucky to be human
Sad and sickening , but that's the balance of nature . I had a snake crawl up into my gutter and swallowed 2 full grown chicks . A squaking mama Robin got my attention . Snake crawled up on the corner of the roof to digest the babies . I grabbed a leaf take and a hachet . Needless to say the snake didn't get to enjoy his meal . One baby left to mature , praise God for that . He fledged to be a full grown adult robin . Amen
Wow..that is nice of you. You see, if other people would take offense on what you did to save the bird saying you should not intervene and let nature run its course, i would like to commend you for protecting the bird. You see humans have an option to take sides. yes its nature but still, as humans we have the freedom to protect anything, anyone, small or big creature that needs saving against an attack from other strong opponent. after all, we also needed it when we were the ones who's in a desperate situation. believe me, though its nature, other animals helped others to fend off the attack. nature is cruel, yes, (i am aware of that) and has its own way but helping other animals in times of need is not bad at all. humans should bear that in mind.
These Crows ain't loyal.
RUdigitized what is there that isn’t loyal? The crow was hungry.
Its a reference to a hit song bimbo "these hoes aint loyal".
A very smart crow!
The reality of life, the strong survive and the weak perish.
Nature: red in tooth and claw
Me: Red Robin!!
Crow: *YUUUUM!!!*
The stuff dreams are made of.
When people say a birds life is easy they just fly fly and fly. It’s much harder than that and this vid shows what I mean
I’m confused, at the end it says an abandoned empty nest. Did the mother never come back? Did she just assume that when she left again that her second kid was just gonna get merked? Lol she straight up just never came back and let the crow eat her second one
Dixie Normis I'm sure she or the dad returned to check out the nest. Chances are they'll find a new location and mate again.
This is why you don’t leave your babies for five minutes
Sad, but this is needed to have a balance ecosystem🤕
Crows don't do this often,only eating eggs and baby birds when there's literally nothing else,the robins just got incredibly unlucky
If you all view the crow as evil, what are you guy doing eating hamburger, huh?
As soon as it said “it’s a crow looking for a meal” I knew they were doomed 😭
This is nature someone can survive someone not
@@MexicanRaiden the strong eats the weak
We all knew....we all knew :(
Although this is the way of nature, it still is very sad, and they are such cute fuzzy babies...
That's actually a raven that attacked they're bigger
not really, ravens have stiffer and puffier necks, crows can be large too but a raven would've been larger than that on the video
That wasn't a raven, way too small.
If you watch it in reverse it’s a video about a lonely Robin couple who build a nest and a crow brings them babies!
And the red Red Robin keeps ba ba bobin along...
That was not a spider, by the way. That was a completely different genus of creepy crawly. :3
Cephei Valarion yes it was a mr spider
Eight legs; it's a spider.
Peter Goddard Looks like a false harvestman.False harvestman are arachnids but not spiders.
I got two legs and I am not an Ostrich. lol
it was Lucas the spider
Damn I never new birds could be this thick
Hopefully that crow gets his, from any hawk or eagle. All in that circle of life. Robins only get a 1 in 4 shot of making it to a yr. The predator list is long.
Not likely, crows bully hawks and eagles.
It’s a myth btw about interfering with the nest. Obviously don’t interfere but if you see a nest with intact eggs on the ground or a baby bird, you can safely relocate it to the nest/tree and exit out. The parents if they’re still around will still return. Help them out if you can. Fledglings when trying to fly will often fall out of the nest.
Sadly this is nature, on average one even two babies don’t make it to adulthood, but a Robin/most birds lay multiple clutches (3+ eggs) in a season and they live for a couple of years. So the numbers work out.
*WhY dIdNt YoU sToP tHe CrOw?*
*wHy dIdN't tHe pArEnTs fIgHt iT*
You don't interfere with nature
Corey O'Bryan it's obviously a joke lmao
Lєαh Thє Chєєtαh well it must of been so funny I forgot to laugh
Corey O'Bryan or maybe it’s because you didn’t have a sense of humor and your dumbass lives under a rock, causing you not to know what a joke is. 😂💀💀
I hate Jays too. We have tons of them here in the mountains, and besides mockingbirds, there's not a nastier voice than jays. They scare off all the songbirds from my bird feeders and bully them.
Nature's Programming
Hi Joan, long time no see. How's the kids? Crow ate them.
Don't know how to say it I kinda like the crow flesh eating parasites always win
who knows what parasites? What parasites?
so, leftists?
“Your brother misses you come join him “ *gulp*
I wanted to see moms reaction
Well..that is a very sadistic of you. Don't you think ?given the situation, mother bird would just shrug its wings and fly off, mating again its partner and lay eggs.that is how its going to be.life must go on.just be careful next time since predators are everywhere.
@@faith1222 i'm just interested in how animals act in certain situations. So you think it would not look for the baby birds at all and just go mate?
Simple! Mom would come back and see the last baby gone and if it wasn't too late in the season her hormones would kick in and she would mate with the male and have another brood. Life goes on. Get over it.
The mortality rate taking in all species of birds is extremely high. They have so many more predators than other animals. Only around 25% of all robins that hatch survive.
Why don't the dad and mom take turns watching them so they don't get eaten?
Dead beat dad?
Josh Ramirez that’s not how birds are programmed
Well it's 2018 and women don't have to stay home anymore. They can provide just as good as the man can.
Why is everyone politicizing this? Its a fact that most woman prefer to stay at home, while the dad goes out and works for food just like every other animal, feminism has really poisoned peoples minds, when it shouldn't even exist, woman have it better, one fact proves it, circumsizion
Duster Bluepaw clearly you know nothing about animals, and women. Please educate yourself
Wow. That was sad. At least it didn't show the mom coming back with a mouth full of food for the empty nest. I probably would've felt much worse about the whole thing.
Mr. Wingman *the circle of life intensifies*
Best part was the crow taking the baby birds.
Freak
Russian bot
Crow :"Yoink! Dont mind if i do"
All these little pansies triggered over the crow eating the robins.
Yet they are perfectly fine with the robins eating the bugs.......
Hypocrisy.
or mothers aborting their unborn
And after the second chick is gulped down, Mom and Dad busily set about laying another clutch of eggs, as they will continue to do throughout the summer. A couple of years ago I had a pair of robins set up housekeeping in a nest in a shrub by a living room window and they raised four clutches between April and September. Somewhere between 12 to 16 chicks, I don't remember the exact number. Most probably died, but some probably survived, that's how it goes.
Where is the father bird?
I blame him for this tragedy.
orangedac neither one is to blame. It’s nature
They couldn’t have done anything about it anyways, the crow is larger then the other birds.
It's amazing there are as many robins as there are. They have a lot of predators. Robins are not good defenders and the most they can do is flap their wings. They often build their nests low to the ground, which means cats, snakes, and small mammals can get to them. They will build nests in exposed areas too, such as ledges, which means bigger birds can get to the nest like this crow. Owls and hawks eat other birds and they are smart. About the only thing robins can do is to hope that from the time they lay the eggs the chicks hatch and get out of the nest before being found.