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    Default My own personal Geiger-counter

    All day I have been listening to what sounds like a Geiger counter that is detecting strong but short bursts of radioactivity in my front garden. This little chappy (I'm assuming that it's the same one) is pictured in the morning, afternoon and late in the day.
    He did a brief bit of proper singing in the morning and then just constantly chittered as he flitted through the bushes and tree. Every now and then a click would accidentally developed into a singing note, but otherwise just sounded rather like a Blackbird making an unalarming alarm call
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    Nice shots louise, looks like you've got yourself a resident.
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    I think you may be right. Maybe now is the time to try and 'train' him so that I can get up close. I remember at a holiday -let in Devon, if you put food on your hand a Robin would fly down and grab it. He wouldn't stay, but that was fantastic enough!

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    That's his alarm call, Louise, though he could be a young one just practising.

    Maybe he has seen your cat though?

    Or maybe he is trying to tell you she is up the ladder again!

    (Love the gate pic - very Christmassy, just needing snow!)

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    It's rare that he would see my cat - she's mostly asleep in the house, although there are the 5000 other local cats
    It's a constant chatter, Catherine. If it stops, it's only because he has gone around the back so I don't hear it at the front Maybe he is just VERY, VERY nervous and needs a bit of counselling - great, I have a cat with abandonment issues and a nervous Robin - what next, a bee with an Oedipus complex?

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