I found a bird's nest today!

[conuly]

I think it's a robin's nest, as it looks like pictures of robin nests online do, and it had three robin-looking eggshells in it. Hatched eggshells, and empty, and no little birds inside. Once the baby birds leave the nest, they don't come back, that's the way it is, right?

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[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

That's the way it is for most birds, yes. I don't know much about the American robin (other than it's different from the European robin), but I'd expect it to behave the same way. Look for little fluffy birds with only half their feathers and not much control of their flight, hopping after their parents begging hopefully.

[conuly]

I didn't see any of those, and I walked through that park just a few days earlier and didn't see any.

Apparently, robins lay their first clutch as early as March, often doing the first in an evergreen tree because the others don't have leaves yet. (And this was an evergreen!) So if it's about two weeks before they hatch, and another two before they leave the nest, I'd say that even if this nest was set up late they're still long gone by now.