A trim for the plants and bushes, and a pretty full brown bin
attracted the curiosity of a robin to see what we'd disturbed.
He made a detailed investigation of everywhere we'd been, even
entering the bin just a couple of feet from us. :-)
On 28/4/26 5:45 pm, Bri. wrote:
A trim for the plants and bushes, and a pretty full brown bin
attracted the curiosity of a robin to see what we'd disturbed.
He made a detailed investigation of everywhere we'd been, even
entering the bin just a couple of feet from us. :-)
We've got a resident couple of robins here - always dropping in for
anything going and a bath. Amongst the other "residents" are blackbirds
Adge (after Adge Cutler of the Wurzels - "Wurr be it blackbird to, Oi
know wurr e' be") and Madge, who have their nest nearby too. On the edge
of town here, we're quite lucky - foxes, badgers, hawks - a veritable menagerie.
A trim for the plants and bushes, and a pretty full brown bin
attracted the curiosity of a robin to see what we'd disturbed.
He made a detailed investigation of everywhere we'd been, even
entering the bin just a couple of feet from us. :-)
On 28/04/2026 17:45, Bri. wrote:
A trim for the plants and bushes, and a pretty full brown bin
attracted the curiosity of a robin to see what we'd disturbed.
He made a detailed investigation of everywhere we'd been, even
entering the bin just a couple of feet from us. :-)
My late brother-in-law had a robin that followed him around the garden, nipping into where anything had been moved from or wherever he had dug, eating the spiders, insects and worms these activities revealed. He
never interacted with the robin, though it was happy to wait within 12
inches of his feet.
On 29/4/26 10:51 am, Indy Jess John wrote:
On 28/04/2026 17:45, Bri. wrote:
A trim for the plants and bushes, and a pretty full brown bin
attracted the curiosity of a robin to see what we'd disturbed.
He made a detailed investigation of everywhere we'd been, even
entering the bin just a couple of feet from us. :-)
My late brother-in-law had a robin that followed him around the garden, >>nipping into where anything had been moved from or wherever he had dug, >>eating the spiders, insects and worms these activities revealed. He
never interacted with the robin, though it was happy to wait within 12 >>inches of his feet.
They're delightfully unafraid of nearly anything, are they not. They have
a cheeky, stroppy, belligerence that seems to endear them to us. My other >favourites are the Corvids - probably for the same reasons. If they were >teenagers they would almost certainly have an ASBO. These most
intelligent of birds walk like they own the place, and the Magpies are so >attractive. Folk round here always greet them whenever they see one - I >think the practice dates back a very long time.
On 29/04/2026 in message <n5e57mFepprU1@mid.individual.net> Bob Henson
wrote:
On 29/4/26 10:51 am, Indy Jess John wrote:
On 28/04/2026 17:45, Bri. wrote:
A trim for the plants and bushes, and a pretty full brown bin
attracted the curiosity of a robin to see what we'd disturbed.
He made a detailed investigation of everywhere we'd been, even
entering the bin just a couple of feet from us. :-)
My late brother-in-law had a robin that followed him around the garden, >>>nipping into where anything had been moved from or wherever he had dug, >>>eating the spiders, insects and worms these activities revealed. He >>>never interacted with the robin, though it was happy to wait within 12 >>>inches of his feet.
They're delightfully unafraid of nearly anything, are they not. They have >>a cheeky, stroppy, belligerence that seems to endear them to us. My other >>favourites are the Corvids - probably for the same reasons. If they were >>teenagers they would almost certainly have an ASBO. These most >>intelligent of birds walk like they own the place, and the Magpies are so >>attractive. Folk round here always greet them whenever they see one - I >>think the practice dates back a very long time.
I don't want to Crow about it but I had my latest Corvid inoculation yesterday :-)
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