This adorable eight-month-old baby starts petting a knitted bird as if it's real and then looks confused as to why it isn't moving.

Wren is handed a little bird, knitted by her grandmother, and begins to carefully stroke the toy as if it was alive.

Lesa, Wren's mum, told Newsflare: "My mum knitted my eight-month-old daughter a little stuffed wren. When I gave her it to her she stared at it and then me with the same expression when a cat or dog comes near her so I realised she thought it was real. She continued to just pat it gently instead of grabbing it and swinging it like all her other toys."

This video was filmed on April 9 in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland.

My mum knit my 8 month old daughter a little stuffed wren. When I gave her it she stared at it and then me with the same expression when a cat or dog comes near her so I realised she thought it was real. She continued to just pat it gently instead of grabbing it and swinging it like all her other toys.

Lesa and Wren