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29 Saturday Nov 2025

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birding, birdwatching, British birds, Erithacus rubecula, robin, Robin Redbreast

Just because I adore these cheeky little characters …

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179/366 Bob bob bobbin’

27 Saturday Jun 2020

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature

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birding, birdwatching, bobbing robin, British birds, British robin, Erithacus rubecula, juvenile Robin, robin

As the song goes …
‘When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along, along
There’ll be no more sobbin’ when he starts throbbin’ his old sweet song….’
~ Harry Woods, ‘When the red red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along’, 1926

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Woods was writing about an American Robin (Turdus migratorius), which is a very different bird from the British Robin (Erithacus rubecula), but the bobbing still applies. And this juvenile Robin, which is just moulting into its adult plumage, was bobbing very well for me during yesterday’s exercise walk.

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