Derek Mooney

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989 appearances 18 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Mooney Goes Wild · Do Daddy Robins Feed The Chicks? · 25 May 2026 podcast

Isn't that extraordinary?

Yeah.

And then, you see, because the blue tits are a more social bird, they've actually passed that on to other blue tits.

So then it spread throughout the country.

And then I think, oh, around the 1960s or something, it was seen in London.

And then it spread to Ireland.

So we would have seen it now.

I saw it on my door.

I don't know whether you saw it on your door.

I'm sure Richard saw it.

Stick it.

But occasionally, very occasionally, you would have seen a robin doing that.

Leaving notes out, leave more milk.

No, drinking the cream on the top of the milk.

Yes, but because they weren't a very social bird, because they didn't spread it, because they didn't tell other robins, it never really passed on.

Well, there was a report I did about two years ago now in a barber shop, Hammo's Barber Shop in Coolmine in West County, Dublin, whereby a robin was nesting.

You remember that, Derek?

It was nesting in the barbers

Yeah, I do, of course.

In behind where all his equipment was.

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