When I captured this, plus 3 others, I was bursting to show the world so went online to find a photo competition. I found The Prizefinder then proceeded to look for competitions I could enter using these and other photos I've taken (I've always taken a lot). This photo came about as follows - I've been chatting to this robin in our front garden, while gardening he follows me around, for the last 7 years. Last summer he encouraged his Mrs to join us and they both hopped around my feet seemingly with little fear, as I turned over grubs for them weeding. Feeling rather confident, I thought I'd nip indoors, get some wildbird seed and try an experiment. Still with gardening gloves on, I stood in the centre of the lawn and held up a dish of seed, talking to Robin. Sure enough, he flew down to the dish in my hand, picked out a suet pellet and flew back to the bush to eat it. The hardest part for me was using my right hand to get my phone out of my pocket and take photos, without shaking the left or scaring him. He flew to me 4 times, rummaged and picked out the suet (he must be able to see pink) and flew off to eat it. I sent pics to my son and friend then legged indoors to post on my facebook. Two days later, I thought I'd give it another go, as I could hear him out in the front garden singing. This time no gloves and I went a step further, just put some suet and mealworms in the palm of my left hand; phone poised in my right. Within moments, a brief hello and Robin was on my hand; I took several photos in the time he sat on my hand looking from me to the clicking phone and to the assortment of food. Eventually he chose a mealworm and flew back to his bush. The whole encounter lasted less than 5 mins but I haven't stopped crowing about it since :D
