I really am new at this so please forgive in advance what might be a totally stupid question!
I was watching the birds in the back garden - with my camera at the ready of course! - and I noticed a robin taking a bath in the large-ish flower pot base I have on the ground. So I aimed the camera and squeezed off a few shots. Whilst that was happening, another robin flew in, stood on the edge of the dish and proceeded to feed the bathing robin - and I was lucky enough to capture that though the actual moment of transfer image is a bit on the blurred side but unmistakeable as to what's going on.
But I'm surprised it happened. The bathing bird is quite clearly a robin, complete with bright red chest and the feeding bird is also quite clearly a robin. I thought that young/juvenile robins - and there were a couple in the garden at times last year - were quite plain, speckled chaps: they didn't have the full blown red chest until later in life.
So that's the question - or perhaps there are two there! I have the images and can post them if it's not a question from the Stupidium family tree. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks in advance.
I was watching the birds in the back garden - with my camera at the ready of course! - and I noticed a robin taking a bath in the large-ish flower pot base I have on the ground. So I aimed the camera and squeezed off a few shots. Whilst that was happening, another robin flew in, stood on the edge of the dish and proceeded to feed the bathing robin - and I was lucky enough to capture that though the actual moment of transfer image is a bit on the blurred side but unmistakeable as to what's going on.
But I'm surprised it happened. The bathing bird is quite clearly a robin, complete with bright red chest and the feeding bird is also quite clearly a robin. I thought that young/juvenile robins - and there were a couple in the garden at times last year - were quite plain, speckled chaps: they didn't have the full blown red chest until later in life.
So that's the question - or perhaps there are two there! I have the images and can post them if it's not a question from the Stupidium family tree. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks in advance.
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