Early arrival of Robins

Hi Scotkat I shall keep my eyes open for them down here:thmb:

One from Last year

 

Wow! I didn't know that robins migrate.

Down here in Shineyland they are in the garden all year round. There were six of them feeding under our big feeder yesterday. Maybe they can only get short term visas up your way :hehe:

 

Hi Shiney your Robins must be extroverts :hehe: they don,t usually migrate but are rarely seen or heard during midsummer (July-August) when they are moulting and become rather retiring

 

Thanks woo

I wondered why they were looking so scruffy. :hehe:

I should have realised as the pheasants are losing a lot of feathers as well. :dh:

 

Hi Martin,
Our pheasants are canny enough to stay in our garden for the rest of the season :thumb:.

They spend most of the year here anyway . Oscar the cat and the pheasants get on quite well. He only catches rabbits and squirrels.

This is a typical picture of them.

 

For many years the baby pheasants have been running around the garden and the patio and Oscar seems to look upon them as part of his domain. It's the outsiders that he chases off. I once saw him chase an alsatian out of the garden!

Earlier this year he saw off a large fox. Oscar lives in our greenhouse and the fox went in there nosing around. Unfortunately for him Oscar was at home. The fox exited the greenhouse very quickly through a 3ft x 2ft pane of glass in the door. I had to clear up the glass that was spread 15ft acrosss the lawn!

 

The Robins have been around in the garden all summer here, not all that visible and not singing for the last few weeks. Now they are back on the bird feeder in their lovely new coats this week and starting to chirp again.