I started feeding the birds in my neighbourhood this winter (I live in the UK), originally primarily crows and magpies were coming, because I was giving them peanuts and cheese, then the wood pigeons, then gradually the smaller birds, robins, blackbirds, wagtails too. The last few mornings because we had snow the robin has started flying up in the tree to greet me and say hello to me looking me right in the eye. Today he literally sang to me, I stayed and listened to him and felt like I couldn't leave him, I literally felt bonded to him with my heart, like I needed to be there for him as he sang with all his heart to me, until eventually he broke away and flew to his little bush where he lives. I gave him some more bird seed then went back inside my own home. I felt like he opened his little heart for me to say thank you for feeding him during the snow to keep him alive. I felt blessed by this cute tiny little bird. 🙏🐦💕
Yep. We have one out here atm. He's class. If we sit outside, he always comes and says hello and takes the food. He's used to used to us and sits around and comes closer every few minutes and the flys off and he comes back again. I've sat and watched him when he's close. He cleans his hair (Spikes it up and then fluffs it down) and then has a look about and he comes back down for a chat or a feed and then repeat. Yep. My wee mate knows we love him and he feel's it back.
In medival England is was common place to give common small birds & animals human names ahead of their descriptors. This is why the Redbreast was named Robin. Similar birds that gor this treatment was the Jenny Wren, the Mag Pie & Jack Daw, Jack Snipe etc there are many more, some have stuck, some have not. Also, I'm sure you've spotted that the Robin actually has an orange breast, however it was named before we had a word for orange. We didn't get that until we got the fruit.
The colour system we learn as kids are a great example of a human construct. The colours we give a name to exist on an unbroken spectrum which we have arbitrarily chopped up. The fact that they exist as separate units in our minds is entirely etymological. If we didn't have a name for a hue it would have been included in whichever colour it was closest to in the spectrum. The Ancient Greeks only had one word for blue and bronze (the metal has a blueish/purplish tinge in the right light, especially when fired). We have made a distinction between them by giving each its own name, but the Greeks talked of beautiful bronze sky and sea. A lot of languages don't distinguish between blue and green at all, but the fact that we (English speakers) do is interesting. We have divorced them from each by naming them, but it's a trial separation which is often tested when people argue about whether turquoise is more one or the other. In an attempt to impart order to such borderline cases, we invent words like turquoise, azure, teal, mauve, puce, maroon, etc. The really weird one is brown. There is no such colour. It doesn't exist in a rainbow. You can't have a brown flash light. We experience it as a colour but brown light is not a thing. What we are seeing is a version of red/orange with varying amounts of dark and light, and we construct brown by context and have named it, so it exists as a definition only.
Apprently robins see humans as giant pigs (they used to follow pigs around as they turn up the ground with their nose) anyways, one of this years fledglings has decided to literally move into my house 😂 he sleeps over most nights, comes when called and hops around the entire house catching my many spider's I use to stop midges coming in during summer. Hes being attacked by his mother to make him move on however hes standing firm and sang his first "claim" song last week, he claimed me from the other robins 😅 now he sits singing away most days while sitting in his make shift nest in the kitchen. Hes a super star on facebook, i just hope the little fella is fiesty enough to keep defending as i would love to see how for this friendship will actually go. Robins are the best period ❤❤
Lol. I’m watching it for serious reasons and you’re doing a great job. But it amused me that if from America then American and if not from America, then European. Lol. No matter what country from. Not America=European. Lol
The bird of balance connected to the 5th dimension through the hexagonal sphere of the garden on eden. The truth from the Sun attracts the truth of man through science. The color of the Robin is the flying preacher connected to the color creation of light.
Fact #1 : 🎶He rocks in the tree tops all day long, Hoppin and a boppin and singing his song, all the Lil birds on J bird street love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet !🎶
one of my fav birds! they're just so cute and where I live they can be bold little birbs, one was a foot away from me and wasnt threatened by me whatsoever if you havent can you do pie wagtails as well? they're another fav of mine
Such a sweet voice and beautiful bird 😍. Every year we welcome Red-breasted Flycatcher a similar looking species to our region as wintering migratory bird . Thanks for sharing. Greetings from India 🇮🇳
