Unacceptable Rypstra
407 (4) (WS) Hungry Ones
Whenever snow hits Vancouver Island, it usually comes up island first. This and the dropping temperatures must signal the birds to move south, for days before we get snow, the flocks of Robins become huge.
During our first day of snow, they discovered the berries in our Holly bush, which I leave on there for these times of hunger. We easily had ~20 birds in and on the bush at any given time with another 10+ birds waiting their turn on a nearby Sitka Spruce, and in the backyard, another 10+ satiated birds were resting in our neighbours overgrown cedar shrubs.
This flock was there the whole day, and by it's end, the berries were mostly gone.
In this frame, one can just see the back of a nearby robin in the lower right hand corner that I couldn't quite crop out.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.
407 (4) (WS) Hungry Ones
Whenever snow hits Vancouver Island, it usually comes up island first. This and the dropping temperatures must signal the birds to move south, for days before we get snow, the flocks of Robins become huge.
During our first day of snow, they discovered the berries in our Holly bush, which I leave on there for these times of hunger. We easily had ~20 birds in and on the bush at any given time with another 10+ birds waiting their turn on a nearby Sitka Spruce, and in the backyard, another 10+ satiated birds were resting in our neighbours overgrown cedar shrubs.
This flock was there the whole day, and by it's end, the berries were mostly gone.
In this frame, one can just see the back of a nearby robin in the lower right hand corner that I couldn't quite crop out.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.