This confiding male European Robin Erithacus rubecula was filmed taking a break from feeding his chicks. He remained perched on the same branch for about ten minutes, standing on one foot and moving only once. He had become so accustomed to the presence of the photographer that he was prepared to allow himself to be filmed from a matter of inches away behaving in exactly the same manner as he would have done had the photographer not been present. There was a lot of background noise on the day from lift-alarms on a nearby building site but fortunately these remained silent for most of the time. One unbroken sequence was fully three minutes and fifteen seconds long, by which time the photographer's arms were beginning to cramp up a bit! It is most unusual to be able to film any bird from such close range. Such trust is rarely demonstrated by wild birds and this acceptance has enabled the photographer to gain a rare insight into the uninhibited social behaviour of this familiar species. David has produced two photographic books containing images of Robins at: https://www.bobbooks.co.uk/bookshop/photobook/european-robins and https://www.bobbooks.co.uk/bookshop/photobook/three-weeks-in-the-life-of-a-european-robin and still photographs of these birds may be seen at: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/davidelement/birds114.htm .