A trust nurtured is a trust complete....Sheer magic!

[Jon Heptonstall]

Fantastic Ron.Every now and then something like this happens and it's wonderful.
i remember a water vole coming to share my sandwiches once when I was fishing and a couple of sheep coming in my house for corn flakes.
Jon.

[prichrd1]

Ron,

Nice one, :thumb2:, reminds me of walking in the local forest many years ago, myself and my two boys.
We stopped for a breather sitting on rocks under the shelter of the trees.

A robin landed on my eldest sons hat - then fluttered onto a nearby branch. It did this several
times - my two boys were very amused by this - and in between the bird landing - I managed to
get some "food" out the rucksack placed it on the eldest boys hand and told him to hold it out
with his palm straight. Sure enough the robin landed eventually and pecked at some of the food.
Eventually we had to move on, and left some "food" for this curious visitor - or thinking about it now -
the invaders left the very curious resident a gift!! After all it was us that stopped in his territory. :smiling:

We returned a couple of times over the year to the same spot, but we never saw the robin again.

Paul.
:smiling:

[adt70hk]

Nice one Ron. Thx for sharing.

Andrew

[yak face]

Fantastic moment Ron , truly special. I love to see the birds in our garden , in fact the house sparrow and woodpigeon populations are booming in south sheffield due to the amount of food the greedy buggers eat in my garden ! I think it would be cheaper to have a pack of hounds as pets ! Seriously though its a small price to pay , we've always fed the birds and the pleasure you get from seeing them is priceless. Last year Bert ( we call all the woodpigeons bert , dont know why) came with his wife (betty) and after a few months four baby berts . They come and sit on the wall waiting for us to put out the sunflower hearts . We also have a sparrowhawk who occasionally takes the odd sparrow , sad but its just nature and its brilliant to see him flashing between the houses like a guided missile .