Henry’s “very gregarious” nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop.<\/p>\n
But when Spring arrived this year, Henry left.<\/p>\n
Tom feared the worst for his newfound friendship.<\/p>\n
“I would see him out in the trees and the bushes singing, but he would not come near me, not even for his favourite food, mealworms.<\/p>\n
“So I thought he was gone – that was it – I thought our relationship was over.”<\/p>\n
Then the colder weather returned, and with it, Henry.<\/p>\n
“About a month ago, lo and behold, Henry picks up exactly where he left off, as if nothing had happened, back on my knee singing and back in the workshop.<\/p>\n
Tom described Henry as “a gift of nature”.<\/p>\n
Now, the little performer arrives most mornings, just after Tom opens the shed doors.<\/p>\n
Henry will flap his wings when he wants to be fed, a signal Tom has learned to recognise.<\/p>\n
His advice to anyone else hoping to attract a feathered friend?<\/p>\n
“It’s surprising what a little mealworm will do for a relationship.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry’s “very gregarious” nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop. But when Spring arrived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-208934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}