Yesterday morning as I sat looking out of the window whilst
drinking my first cup of tea of the day I noticed some movement underneath a
bushy shrub that grows in one of the borders and out popped a Robin, the first
I've seen in the garden for a few weeks now, accompanied by a juvenile that's
just moulting into its adult coat. While the youngster sat on a low perch and
watched intently as the adult bird, all the while 'ticking' and bobbing up and
down, moved around and visited various locations in the garden..a water bowl on
the lawn, some of the feeders, the bird table, the ground feeder and even into
the small tree/bush where all the small birds seem to flee to when something in
the garden panics them. Thinking about this behaviour later it dawned on me
that it looked as though the adult was giving the youngster a guided tour of
where to find everything around the garden!
And I guess my thinking was somewhere near the mark because
this morning at roughly the same time as yesterday the young Robin (no Adult?)
appeared and followed almost the exact route around the garden as the adult had
'shown it' yesterday.
I guess it's a case of once shown never forgotten.
Isn't nature
wonderful?
