Cheeky wee Robin

tumchy · #1 (**permalink**) 09-01-2011, 09:43 PM

This wee Robin never fails to amaze me. Today, I left the kitchen door open while I was getting his mealworms and he came right into the kitchen, perched on the mat inside the door and waited for his lunch!

SheffieldLass · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2011, 09:59 PM

One of mine goes into my utility room, and also from there into my kitchen and has even then gone into the hall and up the stairs and checked out all the bedrooms and bathroom! Leaving little presents behind, of course ....

tumchy · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2011, 10:10 PM

That's amazing Sheffieldlass. I think I might have to set an extra place at the dinner table tomorrow.

mamma-p · #4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2011, 05:49 PM

Aww that's lovely, I'd love to have them visit

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Kreacha · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2011, 06:01 PM

That's brilliant. This year my mission is to tame my visiting robin to eat from my hand.

digannio · #6 (**permalink**) 11-01-2011, 01:07 PM

If you've got a robin tame enough to come close, mealworms could well do the trick in getting it to hop onto your hand... live mealworms, of course, if you don't mind the wriggling!

Littlesparrow · #7 (**permalink**) 11-01-2011, 02:05 PM

What a lovely little fella, its great to see Robins that close, I use to have one in Kent who would always come and help me with the gardening and sit on the top of the fork.

actionfinch · #8 (**permalink**) 11-01-2011, 06:59 PM

The nearest mine gets is when im out cleaning the feeders and dog poo... comes along and perches a couple of feet away .I'm trying to get its confidence in me...

SheffieldLass · #9 (**permalink**) 11-01-2011, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Littlesparrow

What a lovely little fella, its great to see Robins that close, I use to have one in Kent who would always come and help me with the gardening and sit on the top of the fork.

Mine will sometimes sit on my foot when I'm gardening

. (I think it is the same one that sneaks in my house, though they all look the same

.) And gets so close to the fork at times I worry that I'm going to spike it by mistake. Certainly slows down my gardening. It'll brush my legs with its wings when it flies past, too, though whether it does touch or whether it is the air turbulence it causes, I'm not sure. I don't know why it is so tame as I don't try to feed it by hand, and no-one else does around here.

Today I'd already scattered some seed on the ground, had put the container still containing some mixed seed right next to my foot as I was filling up the feeders, and a robin went straight to the container and helped itself rather than go for the stuff on the ground which was a bit further away As there are rather a number of robins in the garden at the moment .. there seems to be one in every 4m of hedge ... it may have been one sneaking into anothers 4m, so was safer to go very close to me rather than a bit further away. This was in the back garden ... my very very tame one lives in the front garden. The rest are just merely very tame

tumchy · #10 (**permalink**) 12-01-2011, 01:51 PM

Don't you just looove wee robins!
Well, I'm feeling quite bad today. I thought it was time I got him to land on my hand to eat his lunch, (he will take from my hand, but doesn't land on it) so before work this morning, I put some live mealworms in a dish of water, so that when I came home at lunchtime, the worms would be dead and wouldn't wriggle. After feeling really bad about drowning the wee worms, I came home and put them on my hand an held it out.....EEEGADS.....THEY WERE STILL ALIVE AND WRIGGLING!!!

Who would be a mealworm?