Poor Injured Robin

[tich007mt]

Visiting my local pool today saw this poor injured Robin. It seemed as if its beak was permanently open and with some horrible looking gunge attached to it. The second pic shows a horrific injury to one eye - presumably blinded in that eye. However it did seem to manage to feed and fly about OK. It was also very friendly and came within a couple of feet or so.

[Lance Morgan]

Fight with another Robin
I don't think it will live long poor thing.

[big bill]

Have to agree with Lance on this ,I think infection and disease will overtake this beautiful bird and it will succomb in the end a shame really but that is life in the wild

[PMG]

Thats a fluffed up very poorly looking bird........... having said that we had a blackbird one season at the caravan site who had all the feathers removed from her back (sparrowhawk being the likeliest culprit) it was red and very sore looking and we expected her to die, not least from shock if not infection. She skulked around for a couple of days doing not very much and we thought her nest of young would have starved - but she rallied - we were feeding huge amounts of mealworms at that time - and she was brave or desperate enough to come into the campervan to beg and feed - so had her own personal supply! She got back to her normal perky self - her feathers regrew and a family of young finally appeared at our door with her She got christened Mrs B and whenever we tunred up for our days off it didn't take her long to be on the step and into the van as soon as we opened the side door - goodness help us if we had forgotten or not had a delivery of mealworms with us I suppose at some point during the following winter we stopped seeing her - either she stopped relying on us cos she had no young to feed - or she had died perhaps of more natural causes - tho wild things don't tend to reach a happy old age and retirement

Pauline