08/02/2026
⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: sensitive content incoming!!! Please be gentle with me! I did the best I could in a moment of crisis. 😭
Yes, I washed and sanitized my hands immediately after the burial.
Yes, it’s legal to bury an American Robin on your property (and I notified the owners of the house I’m sitting in about every step of the process and where I ended up burying her in the woods).
No, I did not touch the babies.
YES, I sobbed the ENTIRE time.
Also 👀 anyone else curious about the bird chirps being auto translated to another language towards the end??? 😳
🚨 UPDATE: I now understand they may have been too young to be fully on their own. I am still learning about birds. I understand, in hindsight, that I maybe should have contacted a local bird rehab for the babies, but, with them all hopping the nest at once, I assumed this was the natural progression.. I didn’t know otherwise. 😔 By the time I got the one baby down from being tangled, the other had already hopped off. I did the best I could and know better now, in case this ever happens again. PLEASE DON’T COME FOR ME 🥺🥺🥺