Knowing Your Place

When birds fly onto your camera you get the idea they consider themselves in charge and super important. This one had an aristocratic air about him today.

And there was a bit of upstairs and downstairs at the wall later on.

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Robins are well known to be the first to try to get onto your hand. I've never quite managed the trick of telling one from another apart from an educated guess from observing behaviour traits. And they do change a lot in appearance during the summer moult. But I reckon this one is at least the fourth to have taken food from my hand at this spot. Once you've got him eating from the hand you can also pass on the pleasure to others, including children, who are of course thrilled. It may be pretty ordinary compared with TV spectaculars from Mr Attenborough but I believe nothing communicates the wonder of wildlife as well as direct contact with the wild.