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A week away with the caravan, awning set up, and the weathers been so good, we left the small awning door open, 24/7. Daily, we've had a robin pop in through the door, apparently completely unafraid. I wonder, why of all birds, robins are so very tame?
If you have ever noticed when digging the garden or clearing leaves etc there is quite often a Robin not far away and they have learnt that humans are quite often a source of food so they loiter nearby and the minute you stop and sit still a few metres away they often dive in and pick out anything that you have disturbed and they are also naturally confident birds as they do not feel threatened by people like a chip grabbing seagull would be.
I’ve had them perch on my fishing rod and Nick my maggots years ago when I was fishing. I always seem to have one hanging around when I’m digging over the allotment. They love the little red worms I throw them from my compost bin.
I don't know the answer. I guess it is similar to cats and dogs seeing each others as enemies but not having a problem with humans, or cows, or *insert another larger being*. I guess that we don't quite understand "inherited/genetic" knowledge.
We have one who lives in a bush at the bottom of our garden. He is quite brave even watching me top up the bird feeder from a few feet away. The photo posted earlier is from my sons allotment who eventually got him to feed from his hand whilst lounging in a hammock!
I have heard that robins have learned to follow pigs / boars around, when the latter root around in the ground it disturbs the soil which exposes the worms etc that the robins eat.
So when we do anything that is the equivalent of disturbing the soil (digging, moving leaves, transferring compost, etc) they come around in the hope of an easy feed.
I guess that pigs don't think of a robin behind them as a problem and leave them alone, hence robins are confident about being near humans. If pigs did think of a robin behind them as a problem and chased them away, I suspect that robins would have learned to follow at a greater distance and so would not be so confident around humans.
When was the last time you saw a human catch and eat a robin? We don't do that kind of barbaric thing here, so they've no reason to fear us. Doesn't explain why all the other little brown birds are scared of us though. Maybe robins are more intelligent.
There was an article about robins awhile back and IIRC,the Scandinavian ones migrate down to us for the winter and ours migrate to Spain.
The three day journey is done in one hit.
Amazing little critters.
There was an article about robins awhile back and IIRC,the Scandinavian ones migrate down to us for the winter and ours migrate to Spain.
The three day journey is done in one hit.
Amazing little critters.
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