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Robins are a sign of Spring! Wrong!
That's the old wives' tale.
The vast majority of Robins do move south in the winter. However, some stick around.
The Robins are hardy and adaptable birds. They are omnivorous.
When the "meat" hibernates, they happily become vegetarians.
An American Robin (Turdus migratorius) perched in an urban park breeding feeding bouts in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
14 January, 2016.
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This robin made her nest just above eye level at the side of the sidewalk! I've been snapping a quick shot as I pass by the nest on my morning walks. No babies yet… any day now.
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The holly berries are finally ripe (or are they fermented?) and the hordes of Robins were having at them today. Have a great New Year, all!
Jim
Front yard, Bernardsville, NJ
An American Robin (Turdus migratorius ) perched on the majestic old oak tree limb after the first sunny day in over a week of on and off heavy rain and wind on Vancouver Island.
It was a sight to behold this morning on the farm, so many types of birds... large numbers of robins in the farm field as well as flocks of starlings in the fruit trees nearby. The resident flicker was out and about in the farm field. Lots of chitter chatter...magical Christmas day.
Throughout December I visited the local sites that Robins and Cedar Waxwings have fed on ripe Toyon berries in previous years. No luck. Yesterday Alice and I decided to try one more time at a local park. BINGO! There we foound both Robins and Cedar Waxwings assualting Tooyon berries in waves. For nearly 2 hours we each took over 950 shots. American Robin; Turdus migratorius; San Luis Obispo
The American Robin Fledgling was taking cover under the cedars in the backyard in Mountjoy Township in the City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
“The quintessential early bird, American Robins are common sights on lawns across North America, where you often see them tugging earthworms out of the ground. Robins are popular birds for their warm orange breast, cheery song, and early appearance at the end of winter. Though they’re familiar town and city birds, American Robins are at home in wilder areas, too, including mountain forests and Alaskan wilderness….. American Robins are fairly large songbirds with a large, round body, long legs, and fairly long tail. Robins are the largest North American thrushes, and their profile offers a good chance to learn the basic shape of most thrushes. Robins make a good reference point for comparing the size and shape of other birds, too….. American Robins are industrious and authoritarian birds that bound across lawns or stand erect, beak tilted upward, to survey their environs. When alighting they habitually flick their tails downward several times. In fall and winter they form large flocks and gather in trees to roost or eat berries.”
Emigrant Lake – Jackson County – Oregon - USA
My wife and I were hiking along the banks of Yerrick Creek near Tok Alaska when a robin flew up to a branch near us. The robin was singing away, but not in the usual happy sound that a robin makes. It kept flying from branch to branch in the trees around us, (this is when I took this shot). Then we seen a movement in a very small spruce tree to our left. The spruce tree was about 4 feet high and about three feet up, there was a robins nest with two chicks sitting inside. As soon as we seen the nest, we left the area immediately so we would not distress the robin or the chicks anymore than we already had.
It was a surprise to us that the nest would be so close to the ground with fox, coyotes and other predators around. We both hope that the chicks make it to adulthood and live long happy lives.
This American Robin was gathering just the right mixture of material for building its nest. Near Cascade Locks, Hood River Co, OR, May 15, 2019.
Robins turn into puff balls when bathing. They adore bird baths but don't like to share. Cute little pin feathers coming in.
Juvenile American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
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Puffed up against the cold morning, this American Robin (Turdus migratorius) was greeting everyone from its perch inside the pink Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata) at the edge of Lyman Pond. This magnolia is always a favorite of the Spring Robins and usually has a nest.
So, Many, Robins! All over my yard. They came for the water in my heated fountain. But I also saw them hopping around the yard, apparently finding something to eat. I'm not sure what they were eating, don't have any berry bushes. This one doesn't look too happy about the snow. This was when it had just started falling.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
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American Robin dancing in and out of the shadows.
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Late afternoon on 20 July 2017, the smoke haze from the B.C. and Alberta wildfires seemed to have lifted somewhat. So, I took a drive along some of my favourite roads SW of the city, seeing a few of the 'usual' things. These included this handsome American Robin, who was busy collecting small insects for his babies. He flew in just when I was looking for Mountain Bluebirds, landed on a fence post and then off he flew. Such beautiful, but often overlooked, birds.
In between photographing Mountain Bluebirds, I drove part way along a road that I had only ever been on once before, and that was quite recently. Usually, I am home earlier than I was on this particular day. This later time meant that I was lucky enough to see two families of deer - White-tailed and Mule Deer. The first was a Mule Deer doe with her fawn standing at the edge of the road. I pulled over way down the road and waited till they had safely crossed. Managed to get a couple of distant shot through the windscreen, with the usual poor quality results. I knew that there would be a barbed-wire fence the far side of the road and I didn't want to spook them and risk them getting tangled in the sharp barbs. Several years ago, I had seen a huge Moose get spooked and then get briefly tangled in barbed wire - it spooked when it suddenly realized that some cows had quietly come up behind it!
American Robins (Turdus migratorius) photographed feeding on berries by Gardeners Supply in South Burlington, VT.
An American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is photobombing another. Les Sherman Park, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 27 March 2022
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I was shocked & thrilled to look out my window and see a northern flicker at my water fountain. First time in my yard, normally a forest kind of bird. We had a rare heavy snow and extreme cold day which means tons of bird action in my yard. I keep my fountain going with a stock tank heater and it brings them in. The flicker ignored my suet and just went for the water. The robin seems puzzled as to who this large intruder is.
Female Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus luteus)
Female American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
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I had several waxwings in my yard during Snowmagedden 2021. They came for the water. So much smaller than the robins that were everywhere.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
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The robins had something to sing about when they flocked to this hawthorn tree in the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge.
American Robin - Turdus migratorius
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The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family. The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to some sources, the American robin ranks behind only the red-winged blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European starling and the not-always-naturally occurring house finch) as the most abundant extant land bird in North America. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confinis of Baja California Sur is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.