Wonderful video. Your Robin is very tame, but i wonder if a change in diet takes time for the birds to adapt to ? Perhaps leaving the food out on a table would have enabled you to see how much your Robin really liked them ? Also, i used to feed my garden Robins a sort of pate bird food from a pet shop and this particular food came in a squared tub and squared feeder. Every garden bird loved it and i can remember a Robin hoping on a garden table next to me as he watched me open the packet, he was that eager😊. As always keep up the great content and your consistency in feeding and supporting your garden birds is fantastic.
I have been feeding this particular bird for a year now. I have done tests with other foods and find these wax worms are his all-time favourite. When he’s in the garden foraging he eats the small white grubs found in the soil (or when I’m digging). I suppose the wax worms are very similar - just rather bigger. How interesting your robin was looking forward to you opening the food!
Successful test! What a sweet video! He loves you that Robin!! 🥰 Funnily enough, I’ve got pipistrelle bats in my loft and I can attract them to fly over close to my head at dusk by making the exact same noise you do to attract little Robbie! Amazing. I didn’t know you had this second channel! It’s great. Going to start binge watching #subscribed
Thank you for subscribing, it’s appreciated. I noticed a bat flying round the garden the other night - it was minute - suppose that’s a pipistrelle? How amazing you have them in your loft.
@@paultreviews it will be probs a pipistrelle coz they’re the smallest. Generations have lived in the loft of my old house since c.1963, so I was told…dunno…I wasn’t actually “cooked” yet, back then….😜There’s usually about 5-6 at any one time. It’s so Goth. Some crazy people think I *bought* them or something coz I’m a Goth! Er, noooo! 🙄🙄
How fascinating. I always worry about the bats because of the big decline in insects over these last few decades. In the 70s (I was overcooked by then) cars would be covered in insects if you went for a drive. Most I get in my loft are wasps nests.
The bird is really tame. "My" siskins and chaffinches arrived just before Christmas, the current flock is over 50 birds strong. They are quite tame, too, or perhaps just used to my presence. The robins have finally disappeared, fortunately, as the temperature is about minus 10-15 Celsius. All the best, Paul!
Lovely to hear from you Jolanta! I am fascinated by migration - do you know where your siskins and chaffinches have come from - Russia maybe? And what about those robins - I wonder if they come here (to England) for our balmy Winters? Wow -15! I was just complaining of the cold today as I braved the +3 C temperatures on the way to the gym. 😆 I have actually experienced -20c in Canada . I specifically went in early Winter to see what it feels like. My robin stays in the garden all year round - he’s been a daily companion for well over a year now…he knows a good thing when he sees it.
@@paultreviews The siskins and chaffinches probably migrate from northern Russia (Siberia, to be precise), when it gets really cold there. Ours (we do have a lot of siskins and chaffinches in the summer too) probably fly westwards and southernwards, perhaps they even reach your southern shores. I have no idea where the robins have gone, they stayed too long, in my opinion. I think they should have flown earlier but they were fooled by the mild late autumn. You go to the gym - wow :-)
@@paultreviews Please, share your knowledge with me once you learn more about it. The old dance routines are a piece of cake in comparison to "the tango with cow manure" I've recently performed ;-)
Wonderful video. Your Robin is very tame, but i wonder if a change in diet takes time for the birds to adapt to ? Perhaps leaving the food out on a table would have enabled you to see how much your Robin really liked them ? Also, i used to feed my garden Robins a sort of pate bird food from a pet shop and this particular food came in a squared tub and squared feeder. Every garden bird loved it and i can remember a Robin hoping on a garden table next to me as he watched me open the packet, he was that eager😊. As always keep up the great content and your consistency in feeding and supporting your garden birds is fantastic.
I have been feeding this particular bird for a year now. I have done tests with other foods and find these wax worms are his all-time favourite. When he’s in the garden foraging he eats the small white grubs found in the soil (or when I’m digging). I suppose the wax worms are very similar - just rather bigger.
How interesting your robin was looking forward to you opening the food!
@@paultreviews Thanks for the reply and for all the wonderful content you have created. So education and therapeutic.
Thank you for the encouraging words.
I have made some garden wildlife videos on my gardening channel if you wanted to take a look:
youtube.com/@paultsworld?si=sbEkQyV0DONMxLiu
Lovely , I will check out the live feed worms , happy new year from Edinburgh!
Glad you enjoyed the video - and a Happy New Year 🏴
Thanks for the video. Happy new year to you and your robin.
Thank you - and a Happy New Year to you.
Successful test!
What a sweet video! He loves you that Robin!! 🥰
Funnily enough, I’ve got pipistrelle bats in my loft and I can attract them to fly over close to my head at dusk by making the exact same noise you do to attract little Robbie! Amazing.
I didn’t know you had this second channel! It’s great. Going to start binge watching #subscribed
Thank you for subscribing, it’s appreciated. I noticed a bat flying round the garden the other night - it was minute - suppose that’s a pipistrelle? How amazing you have them in your loft.
@@paultreviews it will be probs a pipistrelle coz they’re the smallest. Generations have lived in the loft of my old house since c.1963, so I was told…dunno…I wasn’t actually “cooked” yet, back then….😜There’s usually about 5-6 at any one time. It’s so Goth. Some crazy people think I *bought* them or something coz I’m a Goth! Er, noooo! 🙄🙄
How fascinating. I always worry about the bats because of the big decline in insects over these last few decades. In the 70s (I was overcooked by then) cars would be covered in insects if you went for a drive. Most I get in my loft are wasps nests.
@@paultreviews oh no wasp nests! 😱
The bird is really tame. "My" siskins and chaffinches arrived just before Christmas, the current flock is over 50 birds strong. They are quite tame, too, or perhaps just used to my presence. The robins have finally disappeared, fortunately, as the temperature is about minus 10-15 Celsius. All the best, Paul!
Lovely to hear from you Jolanta!
I am fascinated by migration - do you know where your siskins and chaffinches have come from - Russia maybe?
And what about those robins - I wonder if they come here (to England) for our balmy Winters?
Wow -15! I was just complaining of the cold today as I braved the +3 C temperatures on the way to the gym. 😆
I have actually experienced -20c in Canada . I specifically went in early Winter to see what it feels like.
My robin stays in the garden all year round - he’s been a daily companion for well over a year now…he knows a good thing when he sees it.
@@paultreviews The siskins and chaffinches probably migrate from northern Russia (Siberia, to be precise), when it gets really cold there. Ours (we do have a lot of siskins and chaffinches in the summer too) probably fly westwards and southernwards, perhaps they even reach your southern shores. I have no idea where the robins have gone, they stayed too long, in my opinion. I think they should have flown earlier but they were fooled by the mild late autumn. You go to the gym - wow :-)
I’ll do some research on robin migration to see if we get an influx. I doubt my gym workout is as strenuous as your many dance routines.
@@paultreviews Please, share your knowledge with me once you learn more about it. The old dance routines are a piece of cake in comparison to "the tango with cow manure" I've recently performed ;-)
Oh no, just as we thought it was safe to go into the garden again - I hadn’t realised it was cow manure week - the years do fly past!