Hair cut

Date October 20, 2008

Ha, W gave me a hair cut yesterday. Definitely not perfect, far from it, but it is actually respectable! First time round, last week, it took her 2 hours just to get a tiny bit of hair off the back of my head. This time it was about the same time frame, got a lot [...]

Taming Robin Part 3: The ultimatum

Date May 27, 2007

We are so incredibly happy. Robin finally feeds off my hand, and W’s hand too. But it is down the mealworms route. Yellow cheese doesn’t seem to quite cut it. The mealworms are far more tempting, especially they are live mealworms. I suppose there’s more of an urgency for the robin to risk and pick [...]

Taming Robin Part 2

Date May 22, 2007

Today is the 3rd day I’m taming Robin. As predicted, he is now used to coming to my backyard for food, or more precisely, yellow cheese. But he’s not quite trusting enough to feed off my hand just yet. In parallel, I’m also working on trying to get him familiarised with his name Robin. This [...]

Taming Robin Part 1

Date May 22, 2007

This is a rather unexpected exercise. In theory, I’ve sort of learnt from a friend Peter, who is a birding expert, on how to tame a robin months ago. And I’ve longed been wanting to tame one myself. But, as much as I wanted to, I just wasn’t presented with the opportunity. Some very simple [...]