I do love this time of year, as it's a time to make some new friends. Many of the local breeding Passerines, seem to feed the youngsters for a few days before abandoning them. The local Robin pair are typical. This year there are two young Robins around and after a bit of territorial squabbling, one seems to have taken control of my back garden. It was initially shy, but by late July would come closer as I was doing a bit of gardening.
It's grown in confidence with me and now flies into the area close to my conservatory when it sees me, as it knows I will be putting some food out for it. It will quite happily sit a couple of feet above me as I put some food out for it on a chosen rock.
Normally, come the Autumn the youngsters will be driven out of the territory by the dominate pair. However, as the adult Robins haven't been coming in much to my garden this year, it would be great if this uber-friendly Robin was to be allowed to stick around. It will be easy to tell given it's behaviour.