It was a quiet morning on the banks of the creek apart from this sweet female Scarlet Robin who stayed with me for over an hour. She spent most of her time perched on the barbed wire around the small weather station that montors the creek’s water flow: it’s a good vantage point for finding bugs in the grass.
Scarlet Robin (female) (Petroica boodang)
Scarlet Robin (female) – I spy with my little eye ….
Scarlet Robin (female) – ruffled in the breeze, the barbed wire (I loathe barbed wire) looks oddly like tinsel
Scarlet Robin (female) – she looks so different from this angle
Scarlet Robin (female) – then she flew to the edge of the creek and posed beautifully
Scarlet Robins visit our property each winter. I don’t like the cold weather but I love the robins! The female has the reddest chest of the Australian robins. They generally choose a low perch and feed on insects and worms they see on the ground: this behaviour makes them particularly prone to being attacked by cats. Their numbers are declining across Australia, hopefully as more people realise the importance of keeping their cats inside the number of robins will stabilise.
Happy birding, Kim
