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8- The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday June 17, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com For more news on your community visit www.oakvillebeaver.com Solimans aren't answering their front door Family going out of their way to ensure family of robins is safe By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The Soliman family is patient. It comes with the turf when you run a fertility clinic -- Dr. Samuel Soliman and his wife, Nival, operate the New Life Fertility Clinic in Mississauga. They live on Carrington Place by Lake Ontario and will keep going in and out of their home through the garage until a new family of robins literally flies the coop -- the nest made in the Solimans' front door wreath. In a way it's the least the Solimans and their two boys, Peter, 17 and David, 9, can do. Two years ago, the family had their own family roost renovated and the work unfortunately disturbed numerous birds' nests. Though the family called Science North and did as advised -- erected posts topped with cut-away plastic bottles into which the disturbed nests were placed -- the nests filled with tiny eggs didn't survive. It seems that all involved, however, are a little stubborn and aim to keep trying. The birds are not in the landscape anymore, but have moved onto the front door. And the Solimans are committed to "We have no idea how long it will be, but they made the nest because they figured it was safe and we have to appreciate that." Nival Soliman giving the birds a home as long as needed. This time around the Solimans are determined the four tiny eggs discovered on their front door will flourish. Just a little over two weeks ago, Nival Soliman said a bird would fly away from the door each time she went out for the newspaper in the morning or for the mail in the afternoon. "I thought it was making a nest above the door, but I checked and it wasn't large enough," said Soliman. However, that was when she spotted the small nest inside the front door wreath. "I peeked inside and there were four little blue eggs," said Soliman. "We put a sign up on the front door for people to knock or ring the bell gently and telling them we'll let them in through the garage," said Soliman. For two weeks now, the Solimans have been using their garage door instead of the front door. "I was in Vancouver when the eggs hatched. My boys called me at 6 a.m. and said, `The birds have hatched, but they're naked.'" Not so any longer. Soliman said they have grown feathers and the nest if now covered in fluff. She's not sure how long the birds will stay before they're ready to fly the coop, but said, "We're patient." So patient, in fact, that the delivery people ready to install the family's new double-door, glass and wrought iron front door have been put on hold -- indefinitely. "We've been using the garage now for two weeks. It's okay. We're just waiting for the birds to start flying," said Soliman. The resident did note, however, that the father robin has been in the picture, too, since the eggs hatched. "When anybody does ring the bell, we see him sitting off a little ways with his feathers all fluffed up," said Soliman. It has become a bit of a joke that it figures a nest of robins would make their home on the front door of a fertility doctor. "We have no idea how long it will be, but they made the nest because they figured it was safe and we have to appreciate that," said Soliman. -- Angela Blackburn can be reached at angela@oakvillebeaver.com.