Unlucky in Devon - 67, 68 & 69 (robins and wrens)

Wren - (Troglodytes troglodytes) - By Sonja Kübelbeck (own picture --Kuebi 16:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

It is unlucky -  

"To take eggs from robins' or wrens' nests. Should this be done, cows feeding in the neighbourhood will yield discoloured milk, for 

 Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren

Are God Almighty's cock and hen.

Whoso the wren robs of its nest,

Health loses in a day ;

The spoiler of the swallow's house,

Will ail and pine for aye.

And he who with his ruthless hands

Shall tear the robin's cot,

In his coffin shall have a guilty mark

A deep red gory spot.

For a robin to fly into a room and utter its weep! weep ! weep !"

Hewett 1900