Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Before I'd ever even stood beside a real, live mist net, ye could have put a gun to my head and my last words would have, confidently, been that " Five or six great tits visit here.". We caught Seventeen of the f**kers that day! Now, yesterday, using DJH's new type trap, I caught two robins, one after the other. Literally; I processed one. Let it go. Glanced out and saw I had Another one! FFS! Then, just as I was winding down, there's a robin in the same, permanently positioned trap. I'm like, " F**k this! Do they never learn?! " Only, guess what? It was a Third bird! All retraps. That's to say, they had my rings on already. So, when 'todays' robin turned up, I naturally wondered which of the three musketeers it was. You've guessed it. This little f**ker was D'Artagnan! And a bird I rung in December 2012 at that! Whole banquet of food for thought there, surely? This sort of thing just fascinates the shit out of me, quite frankly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TUFFTY 1,476 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Exellent Pete. Good bit off news that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fireman 10,774 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Look forward to hearing about all your bird adventures pete and wonder if it was a cock and was in the area trying his luck with the female of your resident pair?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted February 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Fireman; This is part of what makes robins so intriguing, to be honest; They f**k with our heads! Never Trust A Robin! I have one, has a territory around my front gate. He comes under the gate but seems to live to the west. Then, it seems, there's one that lives to his east. I wonder if this is the one that holds the horse pen, further east? They sort of face off, on the track which seems to define their borders. Behind this place ~ where I do most of my trapping ~ I tend to assume I have another robins territory. Probably centred around the feeders / traps? But, then it all breaks down! Because, as said, I've just caught four of the little f**kers! So, that's, potentially, all of them. And a spare one from god knows where. Yet, they all had my ring. So they all 'live' here'. Worst of it is; I know of no way of sexing winter robins! We age them ~ roughly ~ by the colour and shade of the upper inside of their beak. But, gender? Unless we can get them showing cloacal protuberance or brood patch, during nesting? I know of no other way. So, ye see? I can't answer your stab at an interloper. Not untill we catch these buggers through the spring and nail their individual genders. Irritating little f**ks, robins! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted February 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Today, I caught an Un Ringed robin! That's FIVE of the little f**kers hopping around out there!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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