@8976b041 I think I talked to someone else about this before, but the robins we have here are actually quite shy unlike their UK counterparts! Sometimes you might be able to get a bit closer to one, but more often than not you can't.
There's even a potential reason for it on Wikipedia:
"Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. The robin is considered to be a gardener's friend, and from the traditional association of the red breast with the blood of Christ, the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe, on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as were most other small birds, and are therefore more wary"
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