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Are Robins Symbols Of Dead Loved Ones?

Here's a Welsh Robin from Facebook in the recent snow.
 

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I think that robins are just more noticeable in winter. After all, gardens are chock full of little brown tweety things but robins are so visible with their red chestals regions that we just 'see' them more. And perhaps ready identification leads to fondness. I've found in jobs I've had that have involved working with animals, those that I could identify from the off were the animals I got fondest of. When I worked with a herd of Jersey cows, my first identifiable one was a black cow among a herd of creamy brown ones. Her name was Salad and I loved her. Again, working with ponies, I found it harder to get fond of the whole mass of small grey ponies, while I became very attached to the only piebald in the herd.

So does this play into our fondness for robins?
 
charliebrown said:
American Robins never leave the area where they where born.

So, Robins are winter birds playing in the snow which makes me happy.
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Well I had to look up if robins migrate:).

This gives us a relatively convoluted answer:
https://abcbirds.org/blog20/do-robins-migrate/

I am glad that they are able to withstand the cold. I always worried about those early robins who then were caught in extended snowy weather.
 
Frideswide said:
so do they bite? sting? act like RPG Sturges? Drag you into the nearest pond and hold you under?

I refuse to believe that, beautiful as they are, they are NOT trying to kill me!
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The only thing Our Robins get a set against are the 4 species of cuckoo's that try to lay their eggs in robins nests...apart from that, they're beautiful little souls.
 
brownmane said:
Your robins are gorgeous with the extra colours
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Thank you B.M. Who would've thought that in such a hot country as Australia, we'd be lucky to have Robins. Oddly enough, the one bird with a connection to the afterlife is a Willy Wag Tail. It's supposed to tell to the deceased person, what we say about them.

 
Analogue Boy said:
Why isn’t it called a Snitch - or is that name already used for another of your unusual animals?
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Because that is it's job A.B....It's not doing it out of malice.

I don't know - all I know is that Baiame asked Djei Djeri to do this as their part in the Grand Scheme of Things. In certain parts of the Country, the Wagtail is...respected/feared for their connection to the afterlife.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Why isn’t it called a Snitch - or is that name already used for another of your unusual animals?
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Because that is it's job A.B....It's not doing it out of malice.

I don't know - all I know is that Baiame asked Djei Djeri to do this as their part in the Grand Scheme of Things. In certain parts of the Country, the Wagtail is...respected/feared for their connection to the afterlife.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Why isn’t it called a Snitch - or is that name already used for another of your unusual animals?
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Because that is it's job A.B....It's not doing it out of malice.

I don't know - all I know is that Baiame asked Djei Djeri to do this as their part in the Grand Scheme of Things. In certain parts of the Country, the Wagtail is...respected/feared for their connection to the afterlife.
 
I typed a reply to you about what Djeri Djeri does, and four times in a row it refused to post.
lets see if this one works. And No They aren't seen as snitchs.
 
No They aren't seen as snitchs.
 
Mungoman said:
I typed a reply to you about what Djeri Djeri does, and four times in a row it refused to post.
lets see if this one works. And No They aren't seen as snitchs.
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Are those messages the ones that didn't appear.? Ie the have appeared now ok?
 
We have several wagtails in this country.

Grey or yellow like running water but the pied natural habitats is car parks...

No one know why they wag their tails.

They all have personal markings so if you could see them close, you would get to recognise individuals.
 
Kondoru said:
We have several wagtails in this country.

Grey or yellow like running water but the pied natural habitats is car parks...
Not sure why
No one know why they wag their tails.

They all have personal markings so if you could see them close, you would get to recognise individuals.
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I saw a grey wagtail in my garden the other week. Had never seen one - thought it looked like a wagtail (we get a lot of the pied ones, or trotty wagtails as my mum used to call them) but it was obviously the wrong colour, so the Internet was my guide. Not sure why the grey wagtail was there - we don't have any running water nearby, only ponds in adjacent gardens - but I was very glad to see it since they are rare in the UK.
 
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