Just want to point out that ROBINS are not YELLOW!

Thanks Nikki, I knew you would see it from my angle, you're always on the same page as me

Ahemm, in my defence, if you go on the BBC nature website, you will see where I got this idea from, it's there in black and white on the write up about robins - honest!

Awwww, I hope it isn't an escapee cos it won't last long if it is will it, poor little birdie.

The robins hop alongside us sometimes on my woodland walks, hopping from branch to branch or just along the ground, and I always like to think they're little messengers (which they are!) so I always think of those who I have lost and the messages they might have for me but then I am a bit daft as yer know.

I found out on countryfile, that the reason robins hop alongside you is because they think we're pigs Strange but true, because years ago, when all the wild pigs were about, they used to rummage through the ground, making an ideal food station for the little robins as they moved on, and so the robins would follow them. I was most disillusioned when they told me that I'm sticking with my original theory on this, because it makes me feel better than thinking I might look like a pig lol!

I don't believe that crazy idea for a second..There are two robins here vying for my attention and last year at the market stall I helped raise one from plain to red breasted

Sure they come to us for food.. also if you are driving on a country lane very early they will fly to your headlights and stay ahead of you as they think you are sun.

We are after all sun and food for them in our own right. Sensible wee birds..

You'd better take this up with the BBC then Rosebud, cos here is the page.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/...20060116.shtml

If you look down to paragraph 8, there it is, as large as life, I never made it up lol!

Sorry to turn your lovely yellow bird thread into a red robin one Pat

You'd better take this up with the BBC then Rosebud, cos here is the page.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/...20060116.shtml

If you look down to paragraph 8, there it is, as large as life, I never made it up lol!

Sorry to turn your lovely yellow bird thread into a red robin one Pat

Not yellow enough to be a canary

Very sweet though Tang.