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This exquisite robin is watching and waiting, as I am watching and waiting for my beautiful old Golden Retriever to start feeling better.

I love this shot. This Eastern Yellow Robin looks strangely majestic for such a small bird, with the angle and the complementary colours of yellow and blue helping the composition to seem a little regal.

Eastern Yellow Robins perch and pounce, and their eyesight is quite remarkable. I’ve seen them spot a bug on the ground at least 10 metres from their perch. They bred here again this year, which was wonderful. In fact I’m sure I photographed one of the youngsters, I’ll go and look for one of the shots…

The background distractions aren’t pretty in this shot but I kind of, almost, like the way they frame youngster. Such a sweet little bird as it is gradually transitioning to yellow and losing its baby-brown feathers.

It’s been another tough week for my old dog. She went so well yesterday that I was horribly shocked this morning when she couldn’t stand but she has improved during the day and just now she followed me into the kitchen. She ate a little from her bowl for the first time since coming down with geriatric vestibular syndrome – I’ve been literally spoon feeding her, spending up to twenty minutes at a time just to tempt her to eat, often even that wouldn’t work. Hopefully she’ll soon be feeling heaps better.

Sorry that this is a dog post as well as a bird post, I hope you like the robins and please use the search box if you’d like to see some of my other Eastern Yellow Robin photographs.

Happy birding, Kim

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