Feeding Robins
Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few
crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Any advice will be appreciated. Melanie G |
Feeding Robins
I believe robins prefer worms etc. If you want to provide food, you might
consider a trip to the local fishing tackle stockists for some maggots. On the other hand, especially at this time of year I would suggest that young robins might need to learn to fend for themselves. Paul DS. |
Feeding Robins
"Albertine" wrote in message ... Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Any advice will be appreciated. Melanie G Mealworms ?? |
Feeding Robins
"Steven Pilbeam" wrote in message ... "Albertine" wrote in message ... Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Any advice will be appreciated. Melanie G Mealworms ?? http://www.ria.org.uk/cdouglas/subjects/feeding.htm |
Feeding Robins
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:14:11 +0100, Albertine wrote:
Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Any advice will be appreciated. Melanie G Robins just love mealworms. They are available by mail order from CJ wildbird foods at http://www.birdfood.co.uk/ They keep perfectly well in their tubs in the fridge. If you don't keep them cold they turn into flies :-) -- M C C |
Feeding Robins
M C C wrote:
They keep perfectly well in their tubs in the fridge. If you don't keep them cold they turn into flies :-) Nah, you're thinking of maggots, mealworms turn into beatles ;) |
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:16:36 +0100, M C C wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:14:11 +0100, Albertine wrote: Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Any advice will be appreciated. Melanie G Robins just love mealworms. They are available by mail order from CJ wildbird foods at http://www.birdfood.co.uk/ They keep perfectly well in their tubs in the fridge. If you don't keep them cold they turn into flies :-) Beetles, actually. Tim. |
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:20:24 GMT, "Tony Bond"
wrote: M C C wrote: They keep perfectly well in their tubs in the fridge. If you don't keep them cold they turn into flies :-) Nah, you're thinking of maggots, mealworms turn into beatles ;) i don't believe I said 'flies' :-) I know that they are the larvae of the meal beetle, and still I said 'flies' - what a plonker! -- M C C |
Feeding Robins
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:23:38 +0100, M C C wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:20:24 GMT, "Tony Bond" wrote: M C C wrote: They keep perfectly well in their tubs in the fridge. If you don't keep them cold they turn into flies :-) Nah, you're thinking of maggots, mealworms turn into beatles ;) i don't believe I said 'flies' :-) I know that they are the larvae of the meal beetle, and still I said 'flies' - what a plonker! Yep. Only kidding. Tim. |
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They really are cheeky little devils...
When we moved into our house, we laid a new lawn and whilst doing so, we were helped by Mr Robbin eating all the leatherjackets. He got pretty brave and eventually he would take them from your hand. Two years later (a long time in robbin terms) we have a Mr and Mrs Robbin and Robin Jnr all eating from the hand, in fact they regularly pop in the back door and eat the crumbs off the carpet!!!! we found the ideal thing for them... in fact they chose it themselves... I was sitting eating my lunch in the back garden, on looking up there was Mr Robbin sitting on my plate eating my pork pie!!!!!!!!!!!!! So our family of Robbins, eat pork pies and they love it.... In fact they always have a song for us, and keep you company when your in the garden! Hurrah for the robin! "Albertine" wrote in message ... Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Any advice will be appreciated. Melanie G |
Feeding Robins
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:07:45 +0100, "Lee" wrote:
They really are cheeky little devils... When we moved into our house, we laid a new lawn and whilst doing so, we were helped by Mr Robbin eating all the leatherjackets. He got pretty brave and eventually he would take them from your hand. Two years later (a long time in robbin terms) we have a Mr and Mrs Robbin and Robin Jnr all eating from the hand, in fact they regularly pop in the back door and eat the crumbs off the carpet!!!! we found the ideal thing for them... in fact they chose it themselves... I was sitting eating my lunch in the back garden, on looking up there was Mr Robbin sitting on my plate eating my pork pie!!!!!!!!!!!!! So our family of Robbins, eat pork pies and they love it.... In fact they always have a song for us, and keep you company when your in the garden! Hurrah for the robin! It's no wonder they were voted our national bird. One of the magic moments of my life happened one day on my allotment. My son David was kneeling down on a low turf wall removing unwanted debris from where I had just double dug. A robin came and perched on the heel of his boot, spotted something in the soil that took his fancy, grabbed it and took it back to David's boot heel to eat. This happened several times before he had had enough. As I said a magic moment. -- M C C |
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Magic....................
"M C C" wrote in message ... On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:07:45 +0100, "Lee" wrote: They really are cheeky little devils... When we moved into our house, we laid a new lawn and whilst doing so, we were helped by Mr Robbin eating all the leatherjackets. He got pretty brave and eventually he would take them from your hand. Two years later (a long time in robbin terms) we have a Mr and Mrs Robbin and Robin Jnr all eating from the hand, in fact they regularly pop in the back door and eat the crumbs off the carpet!!!! we found the ideal thing for them... in fact they chose it themselves... I was sitting eating my lunch in the back garden, on looking up there was Mr Robbin sitting on my plate eating my pork pie!!!!!!!!!!!!! So our family of Robbins, eat pork pies and they love it.... In fact they always have a song for us, and keep you company when your in the garden! Hurrah for the robin! It's no wonder they were voted our national bird. One of the magic moments of my life happened one day on my allotment. My son David was kneeling down on a low turf wall removing unwanted debris from where I had just double dug. A robin came and perched on the heel of his boot, spotted something in the soil that took his fancy, grabbed it and took it back to David's boot heel to eat. This happened several times before he had had enough. As I said a magic moment. -- M C C |
Feeding Robins
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 16:19:44 +0100, M C C wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:07:45 +0100, "Lee" wrote: They really are cheeky little devils... When we moved into our house, we laid a new lawn and whilst doing so, we were helped by Mr Robbin eating all the leatherjackets. He got pretty brave and eventually he would take them from your hand. Two years later (a long time in robbin terms) we have a Mr and Mrs Robbin and Robin Jnr all eating from the hand, in fact they regularly pop in the back door and eat the crumbs off the carpet!!!! we found the ideal thing for them... in fact they chose it themselves... I was sitting eating my lunch in the back garden, on looking up there was Mr Robbin sitting on my plate eating my pork pie!!!!!!!!!!!!! So our family of Robbins, eat pork pies and they love it.... In fact they always have a song for us, and keep you company when your in the garden! Hurrah for the robin! It's no wonder they were voted our national bird. One of the magic moments of my life happened one day on my allotment. My son David was kneeling down on a low turf wall removing unwanted debris from where I had just double dug. A robin came and perched on the heel of his boot, spotted something in the soil that took his fancy, grabbed it and took it back to David's boot heel to eat. This happened several times before he had had enough. As I said a magic moment. In Austria robins are pretty uncommon. The local equivalent is the redstart, but it's much more timid and realy not the same. When this winter I often saw a pair or robins around the garden I was over the moon, much to the amusement of SWMBO. It was the first robin I'd seen in over 10 years. I even knocked-up a robin-freindly nesting box in my enthusiasm, but they weren#t interested :-( The robins don't come around any more, maybe they'll be back in the Autumn when they get hungry again. Tim. |
Feeding Robins
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from Albertine contains these words: Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? My aunt used to have a tame robin who was partial to grated cheese. They are supposed to like live mealworms (from birdfood suppliers) but I can't say ours took much interest in them. Ours prefer worms and are always underfoot when I'm digging. Janet. |
Feeding Robins
"Albertine" wrote in message ... Every morning a couple of robins hop into my kitchen and enjoy the few crumbs of bread I toss on the mat for them. I'm wondering if there is anything more tasty I could offer my visitors - or maybe I shouldn't encourage them to feed food they haven't snapped up - naturally - from the garden? Mine are regular stuffers on the seedy stuff that fills my hanging bird feeder. -- Brian "Stuck down a hole, in the fog, in the middle of the night, with an owl." |
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