A friendly robin...

[Flighty]

kept me company on the plot yesterday!
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[Flighty]

[lorna]

Great photo. I am jealous!!

[betula]

Me too  :)

[SamLouise]

Me three!

OH and I were only chatting last night about how we haven't heard too many robins this year ??? We used to have one sing outside our house from about 1.30am to 2am every morning and again from about 6am but we haven't heard it for quite a while now and I'm not hearing them sing outside where I work either (I work right next to a forest and farmland) 

[Robert_Brenchley]

You're unlikely to have robins singing this time of year unless they're confused by streetlights. I always used to hear robins singing by Magdalen Bridge in Oxford right through the winter.

[Carol]

Oh yes they do Robert.  My Robins were singing today in the rain.  They are marking their territory.  As you know if a bird sings at this time of year, it is the Robin.

Good photo  Flighty.

:D

[Digeroo]

I had a pair on my lottie today.  The last few days are the first time they have ventured out of the hedge onto my lottie while I am there.  They have perched on wheelbarrow but I am waiting for them to sit on the spade handle I just so like that.  But no singing in the rain.

[Flighty]

Thanks everybody!
I agree with Carol as this one was perched on the shed roof just a few minutes earlier singing it's heart out!
All my bird books say that they sing all year round, although with a sadder tone in winter, and quite often at night if the bird is roosting near a street light.   

[Flighty]

Digeroo lucky you! 
I had this pair around in March one of which liked perching on the fork handle.
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[Allotment18]

They are such cool birds
I have one that comes and rests by me every Sunday down at my allotment, Im sure its one of the ones that hatched in my garden last spring and flew into my conservatory on his first day trip out with his mum
(well Im a softie and like to think so anyway !!)

[Digeroo]

I love them.

It has taken most of two years so I am so pleased that they have arrived.  Perhaps is because the worms have finally arrived as well.

It seems amazing that elsewhere in Europe they continue to be shy birds.

Thanks for the pic flighty seems I need a fork handle rather than a spade ;D

[Grandma]

Gorgeous birds - and lovely photos, Flighty.

There are a pair in the bushes at the bottom of my garden and they were singing to each other a couple of days ago while I was spreading my compost around.

I think they were telling each other to come and get the worms as soon as the old woman moved off a bit - cos that's what they did!