The best things in life are free
Some years ago, when I was working as a building labourer, I was parked up in the pickup on the outskirts of the village where we were working, eating my lunchtime sandwich. On the stone wall right next to me a robin was coming and going and bobbing about looking for food. I pinched off a piece of bread from my sandwich and held it out in offering to the robin and, to my sheer delight, it hopped onto my hand and took it. The incident was over in less than a second but that one little event absolutely made my day.I still think of that little robin from time to time, even though it must be ten years or more since it happened. The bird is probably long dead now, but, before it died, I wonder if it thought of me, once in a while.
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How cute that experience must have been to have a Robin land on your hand. I've had squirrels come take food from my hand. The eventually get aggressive though, one used to body slam my sliding glass doors when it wanted me to come out and feed her.