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My Danish mother is hugely envious of the tame robins (or should that be robins with tame humans?) we have 'helping' out gardening and hopping about under one's feet in the UK or who sit on the wheelbarrow/table/ shoulder when you're in the garden. Robins never do that in Denmark.
I cannot think of a reason why. There is of course a climatic difference but the climate and light is roughly the same as Northern England over there. And Danes feed birds just as much as Brits.
So I am interested:
For those of you outside the UK- do your robins become tame?
And does anyone have an idea why there would be a difference?
I cannot think of a reason why. There is of course a climatic difference but the climate and light is roughly the same as Northern England over there. And Danes feed birds just as much as Brits.
So I am interested:
For those of you outside the UK- do your robins become tame?
And does anyone have an idea why there would be a difference?
), so I doubt a ready food source be it a bird table or someone chucking soil about would go unnoticed. And they're territorial. So it's not too difficult to strike a rapport with a regular visitor, you just have to be consistent with your approach. A couple of years back we had a bird that would take dried meal worms from the hand, as in perch on my finger and eat them from a cupped palm. This occurred every spring / summer for four years or so. It took a lot of patience admittedly but once we had his trust it was a great experience each and every time 
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