What’s this bird?

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  June 2022

  baby robin?
  
  

  Devon.

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  June 2022

  Yes, baby robin. I have one like that plus one that's almost got a red breast in my garden, so cute 

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  June 2022

  Oh wow thanks, I didn’t even think that but the main Robin was bouncing around everywhere and even perched sideways on the wall, obviously teaching him the ropes. I was busy rescuing all my little drowning plant pots, I’m sorry I didn’t help him dig over more ground, I did that yesterday and it exposed ant eggs and the Robin loved it. The Robin literally follows me all around the garden, love it.

  Here’s the two.
  
  
  

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• bcpathome Posts: 1,313

  June 2022

  So cute .I have one that follows me round the garden too he sings to me as I work. Also have a collard dove that waits for me on the gatepost whenever I go out. 

  Don’t suppose it’s really so ……but I like to think it is! 

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• Uff Posts: 3,199

  June 2022

  That's a lovely picture Ilikeplants, a young one watching as its parent shows it what to do and probably waiting for food.

  SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire

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• Slow-worm Posts: 1,630

  June 2022

  Awww, love your Robins 🥰 isn't it great watching them teach/learn? 
  
  'Our' starling babies are very different - one already taking feathers up to the nest and going short distances alone, and the other still wants feeding! 

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  June 2022

  It does warm the heart to see them being so brave around us big humans. They are very chatty too. They must feel very safe - no cats, dogs and even the children are hardly in the garden 🙄
  

  I also a blue tit yesterday. 

  Could do without the cheeky squirrels eating all the green strawberries though.

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• Heartinthedirt Posts: 300

  June 2022 edited June 2022

  Oh, we've got a baby as well then! We thought it was Lady Robin, but fits in with everything you've said @Ilikeplants. I'm tickled. I knew there was a nest in that Rhodi!

  It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  June 2022

  Yes I did think it might be the less colourful female too like some species @Heartinthedirt, somehow I always refer to Robins as a he. So I don’t know if that’s mama or papa robin and I don’t know if more than one robin can live together happily in the garden as I thought they were solitary and territorial.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2022

  Both sexes of robins look the same (to humans) ... the males are pretty territorial, particularly at nesting time ... but do pair up and share parental duties, feeding etc. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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