He looked at me...

[stuck]

...so I took his picture

[HansV]

That's gorgeous! Thanks for posting!

And Happy New Year to you and your family.

[stuck]

And a Happy New year to you and your good friends too
We also saw a sparrowhawk but it was much further away so even with a 200mm telephoto lens it was only a tiny part of the middle of the frame. This is the best I can do:

[Don Wells]

...so I took his picture

This is very reminiscent of a picture provided at another time in another place.

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[HansV]

That picture was taken three years ago (22 December 2007) by a friend of mine, and I posted it with his consent in Woody's Lounge.

[StuartR]

...so I took his picture

Lovely pictures, thanks for sharing.

[viking33]

That's a ROBIN? I don't think so?
Bluebird?

[HansV]

European robins (if the British will forgive me for including them in Europe) do look like that!

[viking33]

European robins (if the British will forgive me for including them in Europe) do look like that!

Leave it to the Brits to have a robin that doesn't look like a robin.

[HansV]

Hey! The American Robin was named after the European Robin!

[silverback]

This beautiful sparrowhawk came and sat on the fence outside our lounge for about 20 minutes. Despite me lurking at the patio door and taking photos like crazy, it just sat there until it was ready to go. Beautiful but oh so deadly.
Silverback

[HansV]

Wow, that's a fantastic picture too!

[Hey Jude]

That's a ROBIN? I don't think so?
Bluebird?

I didn't think so either, until I looked it up (before I saw these subsequent posts) and I must say American robins signify the arrival of the Vernal Equinox here aka Spring, soI wondered if they signaled the same thing in the U.K.? I read at the site below;

"...Robins are territorial all year round; during the spring and summer this territoriality is for breeding, but at other times individual robins hold territories for feeding. Robins will defend their territories to the death, and so in the poem "Who killed Cock Robin?", another Robin rather than a sparrow would be more likely:

Who killed Cock Robin?
I said the Sparrow,
With my bow and arrow,
And I killed Cock Robin....

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/robin.htm

BTW every photograph on this thread is breathtakingly gorgeous~!~!

I also can't wait to see my first robin of twenty eleven

[HansV]

European robins are partially residential, partially migratory, so we may encounter robins all year long - they don't signify a particular season.

[IanWilson]

European robins are partially residential, partially migratory, so we may encounter robins all year long - they don't signify a particular season.

They sing beautifully too.

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Ian

[Hey Jude]

Beautiful Ian :-) "All creatures great and small, the Lord God made them all...."

[HansV]

Another great picture, Ian!

[Bigaldoc]

All the pictures are wonderful! I enjoy the bird kingdom so always love to look at personally taken photos!

[jaystarter]

Thouoght I'd get in on the act

[HansV]

Beautiful! I almost never get to see woodpeckers - I only hear them...