When out recently on a Christmas walk, our family paused ... We are so familiar that we can forget how robin is a shortening of Robert. An older name for the species was ‘redbreast’ and, earlier still ...

This charming character comes straight out of Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem ... the charming robin redbreast has nestled its way into Christmas tradition. According to folklore, robins ...

October 03, 2020 at 2:00am BST THE opening lines from William Blake’s lengthy poem Auguries of Innonence, ‘A Robin Redbreast in a cage/Puts all Heaven in a rage’, came to me recently when a ...

On a cold, grey, winter’s afternoon, few sights lift my spirits quite as much as a robin, hopping across my lawn and showing off its lovely red breast ... robins with Christmas is that the ...