One good thing about coming back to my current home. Another is the cats. The third is that my house looks nicer after some TLC and with a new sofa.
Having had a play with Song of Bob, I thought it appropriate to see how Motion of Bob looked slowed down.
I love to see the preparatory motion. Previously I had noted that more often than chance would suggest, my movements in filming seemed to predict when and where Bobbit would move. And I must have been reacting to the preparatory signals. My unconscious faster than my conscious, but very seldom as fast as the bird himself.
Bobbit can hold proximity for a period of time before the stress of being so close causes him to move. He also varies day-to-day. He prefers to make the decision as to when and if we can be very close.
Occasionally, he eats a suet pellet or two, but mainly his interest lies in whether I will dig or move a planter. I seek to thank him for his presence by performing one of these acts.
One tub revealed a whole array of worms. Bobbit left into the fray - but as ever seemed to spend more time killing, moving and sorting worms than actually eating any. The video shows his second visit to the wormery.
I think there are three issues. He seems a little nervous of big or active worms. He maybe prefers the taste of insects. And he struggles to get anything bar a very small worm angled correctly to swallow. He is utterly unlike that robin on Dartmoor who mastered a worm longer than his body.... for a while at least.
I forgot to say yesterday how much I enjoyed these vids and your observations. Cool watching Bobbit going to and fro the trellis. That's a hoot watching him with the worms. Providing worms to robins is one of the human gardener's duties (according to robins), right :-) ? Today B & I were finishing the job of edging our walkway, and the vibrations from the spade drove a HUGE worm up to the surface and unto a walkway stone. Maybe about 8 inches. Once she/he got all the way out, I picked them up and put under nice protected shrubbery,