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Celerity

(53,802 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:00 AM Jan 6

Overnight snowfall and biting temperatures of minus 4C left this robin in Worcestershire bewildered as it searched for

food in a frozen park

LEE HUDSON/ALAMY

A stag in a snowy Richmond Park yesterday morning

BEN MONTGOMERY/GETTY IMAGES

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Overnight snowfall and biting temperatures of minus 4C left this robin in Worcestershire bewildered as it searched for (Original Post) Celerity Jan 6 OP

a robin? are ya sure? jaymac Jan 6 #1

Absolutely. It is a European robin (Erithacus rubecula). Celerity Jan 6 #2

Ah hah! jaymac Jan 6 #3

jaymac

(260 posts)

1. a robin? are ya sure?

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:10 AM

Jan 6

Celerity

(53,802 posts)

2. Absolutely. It is a European robin (Erithacus rubecula).

Reply to jaymac (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:15 AM

Jan 6

https://www.britannica.com/animal/European-robin

jaymac

(260 posts)

3. Ah hah!

Reply to Celerity (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:08 AM

Jan 6

Never saw one..........where I live only has the robin redbreast kind.....thanks for the pic too. Are you in Russia or the Middle East? Don't have to answer that anyway.........

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