Derek Mooney
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
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.
Yeah, and there I went to see him one day when it was closed because I didn't want to disturb him and his work and so on.
So I went over to see him.