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I have just witnessed the most magnificent scrap between a Dunnock and a Cock Robin.
There was the meek Dunnock doing it's normal hoovering up the nut bits under the bird feeder when a Robin attacked it. Now I would have laid good money that the Robin would win such a scrap but not a bit of it. The Dunnock lunged at the Robin, they became entwined and parted and then again the Dunnock lunged and the same again but this time it was the Robin who started to hop away and again the Dunnock lunged and this was too much for the Robin and it flew away smartly. The Dunnock simply went back to his hoovering!
Birds so very often surprise me and I suppose this is why I have always been so totally fascinated by them for all these years.
JB.

Yes, they can surprise, I was surprised by a nuthatch, I was imitating varius bird calls, the nuthatch was most curius and flew near me to investigate, I love to watch the antics of tits too, food in one foot, hanging on by the other, their little legs as thin as button thread !

Johnboy, I witnessed something similar last winter and the Dunnock saw off the Robin on that occasion too.
I am in total agreement with you, regarding birds never ceasing to surprise us, which keeps us enthralled for ever.
Cheers.