The spring of robin

Yesterday at the late Nordic sunrise I heard a first robin in Petro in this spring. That means spring really come to me.




European robin (do not mix with American robin which is not actual relative to European species) is very special bird for me. And not only because I did my student research about this bird. I would rather say that I chose this species because I loved it before. I like nightingales also but they are quite rare in Karelia so it was difficult to make research about them. So I took robin.

Robin is very sociable bird. Often it accompanies picking mushrooms human in forest in the autumn time. It lives in the cage quite easily comes tame. I used to keep one when I was 16 and it was really nice pet.

Unfortunately I can not keep birds right now still I’m often out of Petro. But when I hear wild robins I normally stop to look for this small bird with my eyes.