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Today is a very rainy day in Tofino, but I decided to still go out looking for birbs, and I’m happy to report I was successful!

#BirdPhotography #birds #birbs #chickadees #warblers #robins #bc

A wet Wilson’s warbler perched on a branch of a pine tree, looking around. Its black cap looks particularly slick.

An American robin perched on the top of a pine tree. It looks to be handling the wetness very well, as it doesn’t look particularly drenched, even though you can see small rain drops in the picture.

A chestnut-backed chickadee perched on a leaf branch of a pine tree. This one looks particularly wet, with its belly feathers looking soaked, and also the feathers around its face and the tips of its tail.

Another chestnut-backed chickadee, now perched in a twig of a leafy bush in the undergrowth. It doesn’t look s wet as the previous one, but still somewhat wet.

Die Angeklagten sollen die militante Neonazi-Gruppe "Combat 18 Deutschland" trotz eines Verbots weitergeführt haben.#Combat18 #C18 #Kampfgruppe18 #Rechtsextremismus #Neonazis #Dortmund #Eisenach #StanleyR #RobinS #Landgericht
Dortmund: Mutmaßliche "Combat 18"-Rädelsführer vor Gericht

Robin & Co say "Goodnight!"

In fact, they're quite insistent about it. It's bedtime, people, smarten up and turn out the lights.♥

#birds #Robins

Saw mama robin sitting on the nest this morning and wondered…sure enough, a new egg! Second clutch of the season!
#nest #birds #robins

Photo looking through the slats of a deck down at a nest. The backside of a bird can be seen sitting in the nest.

Photo of the same nest, now unoccupied by a bird, but now containing one single sky blue egg.

baby #robins #nest

Robins Hatching

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.
— Noah (@bedmounds.com) 2025-06-10T15:55:20.777Z

And another:

Robin S - Show Me Love (Stonebridge Club Mix)

So good. Iconic sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBvlWsggDQ

#RobinS #Stonebridge #HouseMusic #Music

Guess who was correct?!
I got some gardening done this morning but was still out there when this lil guy hopped right out of the nest and across the lawn. So while the potato box has been built (in the garage) it will not be getting installed until the nestlings learn to fly properly.
#birds #robins #fledglings

Photo of a fledgling robin with dark feathers sitting high in a nest and giving the camera a stare down.

Photo of the same fledgling now on the grass in front of a fence.

The robin is keeping an eye on me today. I've been so lucky to have the robins nest in one of my small trees and when the chicks fledged the adults have now moved onto the opposite tree for their 2nd brood! Both parents are busy feeding now #ukbirds #robins #nature

A robin sits on a green pot by a Chilean Guava and strawberry plant.

Thoughts About Backyard Birds

I am thankful for all the comforts I have, and they are many. I live in a lovely condo in a lovely city, in a lovely Canadian province. I have a reliable income and fairly good health. My life includes food, shelter, furnishings, hobbies, memorabilia, exercise, and community. And, until today, I had birds.

Today I was told that I had to take down my bird feeder. I could keep the hummingbird feeder, but the seed feeder had to go.

Ever since I read the condo bylaws, which was several weeks after I moved in, I knew that bird feeders were not allowed. But by then I already knew their shortcomings. Depending on the type of seed, the type of feeder, and the varieties of birds, overspilled seeds and husks can attract rodents. In my neighbourhood those include field mice and racoons.

Consequently, I did everything I could to limit the possibility of visits from rodents while continuing to encourage visits from birds. I discussed the problem with the local Backyard Birds store staff and they advised me to add a catch tray, to use the smallest de-husked seed, and to fill my feeder only to about one-third of its height. That way very little seed would be spread beyond the catch tray.

In addition, I swept below and around the feeder quite frequently to ensure that no stray seeds lingered among the brick tiles of my patio. I thought I was doing my neighbourly best, but it seems that is not enough.

The delight I take in watching the various finches, robins, blackbirds, and wrens every day cannot be compared to the risk of rodents visiting the patios of my neighbours who might also want to have bird feeders on their patios. It’s an all-for-one and one-for-all kind of regulation. I know this because the maintenance man explained it to me today.

I have always had a good relationship with the maintenance man, and he was quite dismayed to have been the bearer of bad news in telling me that the strata council (aka HOA) wanted him to tell me to take down my bird feeder. But, as he told me this, I was struck by two, equally disturbing, realizations. The first was that I would have to take down my feeder. The second was that they had used the maintenance man to deliver their directive.

When I let him know I would no longer be using my feeder, and as I walked away, I wrestled with which issue bothered me most; the need to remove the feeder or that fact that the council had not approached me directly. Now that the feeder has been removed, dismantled, and put away, I am left with a gnawing disgruntlement.

As I write, I am watching birds fly by my patio, looking for the absent feeder, while I ponder the choices made by my condo council. I know very little about the council, but using the friendly maintenance man as bylaw officer does not sit well with me.

I’m going to miss the birds and am trying to think of ways to redirect some of that grief into positive energy, although that may take a while. Perhaps I should run for a seat on council. Hmmm.

#animals #backyard #birdFeeder #Birds #blackbirds #finches #hummingbirds #husks #nature #Photography #Relationships #robins #rodents #Society #wildlife

High alert around the pond. Two #robins are taking on a big #GrassSnake.
Minutes later, when the snake has disappeared among the stones and flowers around the workshop, a little fluff ball comes out of the yew hedge nearby.
The snake shouldn't have been too hungy though as it had a big frog minutes before...
#gardening #wildlife

grass snake on stones, watched by a robin

Kijk, ik heb mijn rode kleren al aan! Tot straks!

#rodelijn #wijtrekkeneenrodelijn #denhaag #vreedzaam #protest #gaza

#roodborst #robin #erithacusrubecula #rotkelchen
#roodborstje #robins #bird #nature #birds

During a visit to RSPB Ham Wall in #Somerset at the beginning of this month, at least two different #Robins seemed to invite my brother @rob_camera and I to join them for lunch. We politely declined, as neither of us are keen on spider sandwiches.

#PlumeScrolling #UKWildlife #Birds #BirdPhotography #Vogels #VogelFotografie #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) perched on a twig, with a spider clutched in his or her beak. The bird's body is facing us, but the head is turned to the bird's right (left as we look at him or her). The breast, throat, and forehead are orangey-red in colour, bordered with grey. The belly is white, the cap, upper body (what little we can see of it), wings and tail brown, the beak dark, and the legs and feet pinkish.

The rest of the babies have flown the nest. This one apparently does not like cold rainy weather. #robins #fledglings #babybirds

The porch light babies are almost ready to fly. #robins #fledglings #babybirds

I was beginning to think my favorite part of spring would never come! The robins decided to move to the middle deck posts, but they’ve built up and the first egg appeared today. Blessed Beltane!
#beltane #robins #EggWatch #SignsOfSpring

Photo looking down through the slats of a wooden deck at a birds nest. Nestled in the center is one single blue egg.

Tomtit Ngirungiru on a stick in Rakiura

Tomtit balancing twigs, break and curiosity
The Ngirungiru, or Tomtit, is a very small passerine bird in the Robins-family Petroicidae.
With a maximum length of 12 cm and a weight of 11 gram, it is basically the size of two Ping-Pong balls with wings and tail.

Frenetic enthusiastic
It is also very curious and enthusiastic. Meaning that when it decides you are not a threat when you meet one up close in the forest, it will follow you along for some time. But in a frenetic pattern, jumping between the trees, branches, trail and back up again.

And then maybe, maybe, just be still for a couple of seconds where you get a reasonable shot. Like this one in the forest at Rakiura, Aotearoa.

There are five subspecies of Tomtits, and they have different names in Māori. The South Island and Rakiura Stewart Island variant is called Ngirungiru. The North Island is called Miromiro. And as a loveable little fellow, there are several other Māori and English name for it. Tomtit is an adaptable feather ball, and lives well with most of the changes made to the biodiversity of New Zealand.

#2015CE #Animals #Aotearoa #AotearoaNewZealand #bird #birdparadise #Birds #blue #bluesky #curious #forest #frontdoor #green #Horseshoe #Bay #Kiwi #kiwiexperience #NikonD800 #Māori #NestorMeridionalis #New #Zealand #Ngirungiru #passerine #pingpongball #Rakiura #RakiuraStewartIsland #roadtrip #robins #smallbird #social #southisland #southpacific #StewartIsland #tomtit #weird #birdswood #Ngirungiru #Petroicidae