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Image Taken on 15 Nov 2006 at 06:47    Image of day on 19 Nov 2006

This robin is just launching itself from the log nicely in the focal plane for once.


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Image of day on 11 Aug 2005

This robin took it's picture fleeing from the approach of the monster coming to swop memory cards in the camera and chuck down some corn. During the day robins are now fairly trusting but in the half-light they quite rightly play safe.


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Image Taken on 27 Jun 2006 at 05:11    Image of day on 02 Jul 2006

The robin family still seem to be doing OK. Here is one of the immature birds in flight just past midnight. Birds are not supposed to fly in the dark, but this was taken only 2 days after the longest day, so twilight never really ends.


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Image Taken on 20 Jul 2007 at 05:22    Image of day on 09 Aug 2007

The insect top right must be in front of the young robin or it would be out of focus (like MOST are) so the bird is jumping to catch it.


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Image Taken on 27 Jul 2006 at 08:47    Image of day on 09 Aug 2006

The young robins are developing well. Robins and similar birds have nearly all-round vision so their vision 'sweet spot' is not ahead but to one side. Hence the quirky head angle to examine and maybe also listen to the ground.


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Image Taken on 05 Mar 2019 at 07:14    Image of day on 01 Apr 2019

What's up there then?
We couldn't see anything above the robin in the original camera frame.


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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2008 at 06:21    Image of day on 23 Aug 2008

Most landings are perfect elegance (we could show you dozens a night) but they don't all go as planned.


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Image Taken on 07 Nov 2017 at 16:49    Image of day on 16 Dec 2017

At the end of the day this Robin is out in the gloom and rain launching this attack on something above. Knowing Robins sweet disposition (NOT) it was probably another Robin daring to fly over!


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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2024 at 14:30    Image of day on 13 Feb 2024

This Robin is doing the endless rounds in the quest for food - their primary defence against the cold.


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Image Taken on 30 Jul 2011 at 20:55    Image of day on 19 Sep 2011

A moulting juvenile Robin impatiently waiting for the rest of it's new breast feathers to come out red.


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Image Taken on 05 May 2009 at 07:59    Image of day on 29 May 2009

Last decent pic of the robin family of 4 before fledging. Ahhhh.


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Image Taken on 23 Apr 2009 at 10:29    Image of day on 21 May 2009

A pair of robins build a nest on top of a rack in a dilapidated tool shed (windows & door long gone) & they now have at least 4 chicks in it. The parents usually come out and wait expectantly for a tit-bit from us, so we can go in and get a picture. We can't see what we are photographing even on the camera's LCD because it is so dark, but switching the camera to automatic & flash and pointing it through the gap in the fertiliser bags usually gets something. Only once a day though - don't want to stress them.


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Image Taken on 02 Nov 2024 at 06:53    Image of day on 10 Dec 2024

A perky Robin greets the dawn.


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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2017 at 12:11    Image of day on 02 Mar 2017

A Robin perched on the nearly disintegrated strip of bark.


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Image Taken on 04 Apr 2010 at 16:35    Image of day on 07 May 2010

And 100m away an undoubtedly different bird posed in the sunshine for a portrait.


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Image Taken on 21 Mar 2026 at 10:20    Image of day on 26 Apr 2026

Outside the front of the house is a long ago pollarded (and unfortunately dead) ornamental Cherry tree inherited with the house right on the edge of the concrete track subsequently laid by the farmer we bought the 2 acres from. Unfortunately it started to grow over the access track and we had to try to reduce the overgrowth. But it died, and now provides a convenient perch for mostly Pigeons, but here this Robin.
The Robin is looking down at their mate ...


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Image Taken on 21 Mar 2026 at 10:20    Image of day on 26 Apr 2026

... who was picking up a scatter of corn from the concrete track.


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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2024 at 10:54    Image of day on 13 Feb 2024

The sun-warmed hedge has already thawed as this little bundle of Joy glows in the sunshine.


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Image Taken on 20 Nov 2025 at 10:42    Image of day on 11 Jan 2026

This Robin, territory holder for the front of the house, watched us from the west hedge.


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Image Taken on 04 Dec 2018 at 09:58    Image of day on 17 Jan 2019

A session tackling overgrown trees in the front 'Garden' was accompanied by this Robin on one of the dead branches looking for anything tasty we might disturb.


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