Unintentional Grounding

So I sent the kids off to do some discovering the other day... It all started when Gavin got a really cool feather from Grandma Edie; naturally Afton wanted one too, so I sent them off to find another one. They looked in all the usual places and about 10 minutes into their adventure they came back with a treasure they were thoroughly delighted over, to my dismay, they had 'spied with their little eyes' a robins nest up in the eves of our neighbors deck. Being the big thinkers that they are they thought for sure they'd find a feather inside a birds nest, I mean why not right...it's only logical. So they beat the nest down with a handy broken drain pipe and in the process broke 4 beautiful, tiny, delicate robin eggs. They gathered them piece by piece, put them back in the nest yoke and all, and innocently came to show me their discovey. Needless to say I was a bit disheartened by their finding and used it as a perfect teaching moment. We immediately went inside, googled robin eggs/incubation/Robin facts and learned a little about the Robin bird, we talked about how we should leave nature alone and even colored a picture of a robin. It turned out to be a great way to spend the rainy afternoon. Well, they never did find another feather but that was soon forgotten.