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Image Taken on 07 Jan 2016 at 16:40    Image of day on 12 Feb 2016

Robin. Mud. What more to say!


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Image Taken on 16 Jan 2016 at 12:31    Image of day on 19 Feb 2016

As we walk about the Robins in each territory make their approach in the hope of some food from the bottom of Marie's bottomless corn pocket. This one is perched on a 'weldmesh' ring which does service as an incinerator.


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Image Taken on 16 Jan 2016 at 12:31    Image of day on 19 Feb 2016

An image of the robin shows a reflection in his eye of the world behind the camera.


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Image Taken on 10 Feb 2007 at 11:43    Image of day on 17 Feb 2007

Only about 4 Hours after yesterdays portrait the snow thaw has turned into a minor flood as the ground beneath is still frozen and the water can only run over the surface. Unfortunately we didn't realise in the summer that this site is in the preferred run-off.


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Image Taken on 10 Dec 2006 at 07:11    Image of day on 19 Dec 2006

Robin posing for the 2007 Christmas card?


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Image Taken on 16 Apr 2008 at 06:33    Image of day on 28 Apr 2008

Birds are just so agile in the air. There is the head of another Dunnock at the right edge of the original frame, so maybe this is the male showing off. You can see the log is in one of its 'rook-adjusted' positions


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Image Taken on 04 May 2010 at 10:46    Image of day on 11 Jun 2010

And the sleek version.


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Image Taken on 14 Dec 2018 at 13:50    Image of day on 25 Jan 2019

Walking round the plot, a succession of Robins arrive in the hope of some corn. This one is perched on the filler cap of our many decades old heating oil tank.
Modern 'Plastic' tanks apparently last 10 years if you are lucky.


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Image Taken on 24 Dec 2025 at 13:11    Image of day on 04 Feb 2026

A pristine Robin at the hedge bottom.


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Image Taken on 04 Jan 2025 at 15:35    Image of day on 08 Feb 2025

A pristine Robin.
Keeping reasonably warm in the freezing nights needs every bit of insulation they can find.


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Image Taken on 05 Nov 2024 at 16:29    Image of day on 10 Dec 2024

Robins seem to be more numerous than of late.


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Image Taken on 16 Jan 2023 at 10:28    Image of day on 09 Feb 2023

This Robin at the hedge bottom includes an almost complete reflection in the water that floods the path between camera and subject as run-off from the farm fields to our east.


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Image Taken on 19 Feb 2026 at 08:30    Image of day on 03 Apr 2026

The local Robin for this bit of the south hedge guards the stone and unknowingly provides the camera with his reflection in the slowly running flood water.


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Image Taken on 08 Jan 2017 at 12:30    Image of day on 16 Feb 2017

Robin decorating the hedge in some fitful sunshine.


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Image Taken on 12 Feb 2010 at 14:00    Image of day on 12 Mar 2010

We have dozens of robins each defending a territory. At the territorial boundery one bird becomes hesitant and another arrived. This one was perched on the top of a little post that holds our house name board.


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Image Taken on 06 Jan 2009 at 12:50    Image of day on 27 Jan 2009

The surface of frozen ponds have attracted a pair of Foxes, pheasants, and many small birds including this robin.


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Image Taken on 28 Feb 2018 at 09:12    Image of day on 04 Apr 2018

Robins seem to 'light up' the hedges with their red and white breasts.


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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2017 at 13:01    Image of day on 10 Mar 2017

Is it the Robin unusually 'lighting up' the hedges this year, or is it our perception of them? This little guy was over our access concrete track, obviously excited by the prospect of a hand-out from 'bottomless' corn pocket.


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Image Taken on 05 Nov 2024 at 12:53    Image of day on 10 Dec 2024

Robins seem to be more numerous than of late.


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Image of day on 17 Jan 2006

Robin using the small log as a lookout post. We get this sort of pose 5 or 10 times a day, but this is a particularly nice one.


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