Derek Mooney

This is Mooney Goes Wild on RTE Radio 1.

Yeah, it's true.

Especially when you see then Christmas cards and you see two or three robins on them together.

That does not happen.

The only time I ever see robins together is during the breeding season and I see them in the back garden because they nest regularly in the back garden.

And like Richard says, they have...

Generally, in my garden, about three clutches.

And I know it is said that they build a new nest and they move on to new nests.

But there's one particular small robin nest box in the garden, down the bottom of the garden.

And they use that religiously.

They're in it again.

And like Richard said as well, too, as soon as that first clutch leaves the nest...

He tends to stay with them.

So it's only him that I will see in the garden feeding.

She's gone off and she's starting on a second family.

The other thing about them as well, people often say to me, oh, look at the robin there and he's feeding a thrush or something.

Because when you look at the small birds, when they come out of the nest.

When they come out of the nest, they don't look like robins.

They look like small trushes, a ball of fluff, as big as the mammy or the daddy.

Sometimes they even look bigger, but the breast is speckled.