They're starting to stretch and flap their wings a lot, which often causes someone to end up sitting on someone else's head. They also peck little bits of whatever off each other's heads, which looks exactly like bickering siblings, especially when it happens after a prolonged period of preening/flapping - the preener/flapper will sit down and the bird next to it will reach over and peck its' head. They will sometimes preen each other - I think this is accidental, and it's more of an "oh look, a feather! must preen!" reaction than it is community behaviour.
This video is several minutes of preening and heavy breathing in an attempt to video a wingflapping episode. And right on cue, there's some wingflapping and chin scratching as I type! Give the birdie a worm for being so cooperative!
Read from the bottom - I didn't start the blog until we'd been filming one bird sitting on a nest for 12 days and the babies hatched. Apparently 60% of baby robins do not survive the nesting phase - let's see how far these ones get!
Hi. My name is Susan, and I am, in no particular order, a wife and mother and writer and dog-walker. My life belongs to God, and some days I even show that in how I live.
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Look! They look like birds!
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