Bramley’s SIONA LAW continues her series looking at wildlife in her back garden.
With robins you can distinguish them by their bright red breasts, their brown grey feathers.
Males and females look identical, young robins however have no red breast and are spotted with golden brown feathers.
Robins can hover, and will bob around, then a rare brief moments robins can be seen flying backward, or upside-down.
They have a distinct call which you might hear a sharp yeep, peek, chirr; which could sound like a laugh or chuckel and sounds like “Twiddoo-Twiddiy-D-Twiddle-Twiddle” or “cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerio”.
They are often heard singing at night.
In the middle of winter robins will start making lots of noise, then more so during early spring and morning hours. This is to establish their territory, attract mates, and defend their nesting sites.
This means many robins are calling to each other and making a racket. Due to noise polution caused by traffic, robins and other birds call in the very early mornings and later at night to make sure they can be heard.
So as well as hearing owls late in the night you can hear robins too. Robins can live up to six years and over but due to harsh conditions and predators many only have a life span of 1.1 years.
There are estimated to be around 7 million breeding pairs in the uk. The robin is Britain’s unofficial national bird, being voted for in the 1960s and 2015.
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