[cowtowney]

She said: "I suspect that most of these rare visitors eventually succumb anyway to cold weather or a lack of food, if not predation."

Lack of food or lack of good food? This is, afterall, England. Perhaps, the Robin just decided it would rather starve than eat kidney pot pie or some such.

[Lakeside]

But black puddings trump kidney pie every time. Horrid!

Poor robin *would* rather starve to death, I know I would.