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Image Taken on 01 Mar 2010 at 10:33    Image of day on 07 Apr 2010

Our latest offering from our on-going attempt to depict a robin picking up corn grain from the surface of water. The camera was focussed ready for the bird to take the corn grain just above the birds head in the top image, so they are not as crisp as hoped. The whole sequence lasts about half a second - neither the camera nor photographer has time to adjust anything.


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Image Taken on 09 May 2010 at 14:57    Image of day on 17 Jun 2010

The image for 23 May 2010 (taken 15 April) showed you Moss being taken into this robins nest. Here is a similar view 3 weeks later - the eggs have hatched and an endless stream of insect food is being delivered.


Ref: 20100617_db1_20100509_1457_043 robin flying to nest in miniature conifer with beak full of food 3 of 5 (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image Taken on 23 Jan 2017 at 16:44    Image of day on 26 Feb 2017

A Robin chasing away some other bird we can see, but not identify, as a pair of legs at the top of the frame.


Ref: 20170226_e63_20170123_1644_089_fb1 robin flying vertically to attack bird (mostly out of frame) above(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image Taken on 09 Sep 2022 at 14:38    Image of day on 16 Oct 2022

This Robin is excavating at the bottom of the stone.
It it more normal to see them, perkily perched hoping for a handout!


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Image Taken on 05 Nov 2016 at 15:29    Image of day on 13 Dec 2016

The second of two similar events a couple of weeks apart - a Robin grabbing some peanut butter as first priority before it has even landed. Nine minutes later a Squirrel had 'taken over' the site - perhaps the Robin's tactics make a lot of sense!


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Image of day on 14 Feb 2005

This robin must be almost stationary in the air to be this sharp with a 0.001 second flash. The Great Tit is about to get a surprise.


Ref: 20050214_d3e_09649 fb1 robin hanging in the air over a great tit 2005feb07_15-46-18 (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image Taken on 09 Mar 2008 at 17:16    Image of day on 03 Apr 2008

A robin manages to get itself all in-focus for this geometric display of wings and feathers.


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Image Taken on 10 Dec 2007 at 12:22    Image of day on 09 Jan 2008

The wing tip of an unidentified bird at the top right (out of this crop) is the reason for this robin's aggressive position.


Ref: 20080109_d3b_20071210_1222_184 fb1 robin in aggressive position (another bird out of frame upper right)(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image Taken on 28 Dec 2008 at 10:34    Image of day on 15 Jan 2009

On a freezing winter day this robin watched us hopefully in the sunshine sheltered from the wind by a blackberry thicket. More sense than us then, trudging around in the biting wind.


Ref: 20090115_dc1_20081228_1034_041 robin in blackberry thicket(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image Taken on 13 Jan 2010 at 11:02    Image of day on 16 Feb 2010

Days of freezing and snow encouraged us to load up our feeding sites with stored food. Here a robin visits in light snow long after all but fragments have gone.


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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2009 at 07:14    Image of day on 14 Oct 2009

And probably a different robin in flight.


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Image Taken on 25 Apr 2008 at 20:11    Image of day on 11 May 2008

The unusually sharp image of a Robin flying through the site


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Image Taken on 27 Dec 2006 at 15:59    Image of day on 09 Jan 2007

A robin flying at speed through the beam break is inevitably a bit blurred but rather fun.


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Image Taken on 05 May 2009 at 18:42    Image of day on 31 May 2009

The robin menacing what the feather colour suggests might be another robin. For once the flying bird is 'pin sharp'.


Ref: 20090531_d3a_20090505_1842_021 fb2 robin in flight (sharp) & threatening another bird behind log(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image Taken on 31 Oct 2015 at 13:13    Image of day on 21 Dec 2015

An inter-species encounter at the kitchen window perch.


Ref: 20151221_e60_20151031_1313_065_fb3 robin in flight + greenfinch on perch challenging each other (adjusted crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg

Image of day on 21 Aug 2005

Robin rising out of the frame to avoid an oncoming moorhen.


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Image of day on 10 Dec 2005

Robin appearing to fly straight at the camera. Imagine being that size and seeing that coming at you.


Ref: 20051210_d3e_28053 fb1 robin in flight 2005dec01_16-24-10(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image of day on 20 Dec 2005

A robin flying over the feeding area carrying a wisp of dried grass or similar, possibly to line a roosting nestbox or natural shelter.


Ref: 20051220_d3c_26566 fb2 robin in flight 2005dec16_16-39-26(r+mb id@576).jpg

Image of day on 18 Sep 2005

Robin flying off from the feeding site in the gloom of evening.


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Image of day on 24 Jan 2006

One of our ever hungry robins flying over a feeding sight.


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