My December Robin
How unafraid this little visitor is - he's usually the first to a tray of foodstuffs put out to augment food supplies in frosty weather, but having said that today's first arrival wasn't the robin, it was a gull - who swiftly was discouraged by a rap on the window. Gulls robbing feed for small birds I'm not inclined to allow - gulls have enough capacity to ride out hard spells and can always forage along the salt shoreline so they get short shrift here if I see them robbing the bird dish.
My December Robin
How unafraid this little visitor is - he's usually the first to a tray of foodstuffs put out to augment food supplies in frosty weather, but having said that today's first arrival wasn't the robin, it was a gull - who swiftly was discouraged by a rap on the window. Gulls robbing feed for small birds I'm not inclined to allow - gulls have enough capacity to ride out hard spells and can always forage along the salt shoreline so they get short shrift here if I see them robbing the bird dish.