介绍:
There’s a robin that appears to be so fearless that it has developed a close friendship with a girl of seven.
The bird waits for Lauren Newton to come home from class every day, and has done this for the last six months. Then it flies straight to her hand as she walks into the garden with a fistfull of bird food.
Lauren said, “He seems to like me more than anyone else. When I go to school, he follows a little bit. When I come back from school, he’s waiting on the garden fence. He’s my friend, and my friends at school know about him and are amazed at what the robin does.”
Her mother said, “He is so friendly that he has almost become part of the family. We think he has a nest in our garden. He loves to sit on my daughter’s forefinger feasting on his diet.”
Lauren loves animals and also feeds a dormouse that comes into the garden, but the robin gets jealous when he sees this. Lauren’s dad is a keen bird watcher and perhaps he has instilled a love of animals in Lauren.
Her father said, “It’s very impressive that Lauren knows so much about birds and we encourage children to learn about wildlife. Robins are one of the more approachable of the garden birds. They’re quite comfortable with human company.”
