(European) Robin

whis4ey · Post by **whis4ey** » Jul 12, 2007 8:43 am

The Robin Redbreast
Quite a bossy little character he is ... very jealous of his territory

whis4ey · Post by **whis4ey** » Jul 12, 2007 11:34 am

and a baby

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jul 13, 2007 7:35 am

Cute! Your Robins are so tiny!

One of our fledgings has become very territorial of his garden. It's between the lilacs and blue spruce amongst the hosta memorial garden. I had put the bottom of a pot out there, with water after the fedgings left the nest to that area. One of the 3 we watched for 2-3 weeks has been very protective of that water dish. He'll chase what ever finch, catbird or wren comes near the water, then just sit in it and watch around for 5-10 mintues. But he's never far from it when someone else comes, he flys in immediately!

party_music50 · Post by **party_music50** » Jul 13, 2007 7:47 am

I love that first photo!!!

Yes, our robins are larger/longer -- but usually much more slender than yours appear to be, and with a full reddish-orange front. Not territorial at all.

Are your robins seed-eaters? The preferred diet for ours is worms. Supposedly, our robins won't eat seed, and I never see them at the feeders. I also recently read that the reason our robins don't stay through the winter here is lack of food supply, and that if we had enough dried fruits, and a reasonable worm/bug source, they wouldn't go south. That wouldn't happen here though, as our "winters" last about 6 months. We generally only see robins from sometime in March until sometime in October/November.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jul 13, 2007 8:19 am

We had a few here till January several years back. I lost my pics when that computer crashed, but we had about a foot of snow all of sudden after a warm jan start adn they were eating every berry off the bushes they could find. Unfortunately, many got a little tipsy shall we say, after eating them. They were a bit fermented!