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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.
Parée Erica’s Texture Fun Challenge #14
Texture with thanks to Parée Erica
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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
2024-25: Judge commended out of 922 entries in Photocrowd 'Your Photographic 'Bloopers' competition in January 2025
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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Nature - Birds - Fledgling American Robin that has just left its nest - .
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.
Through the juvenile, it's easy to see how Robins are so closely related to Hermit, Wood, Gray-cheeked and Swainson's Thrushes. All part of the Turdidae Family.
American Thrush -9836
He showed up in the neighborhood for the fist time this past March. He was very friendly right from the get-go allowing me to get within a few feet of him. Now after a few short months we've become best friends and I can get within inches of him!
He can get soiled very fast searching for worms and other insects in the dirt. However, he is very conscious of his looks and personal hygiene, so you will find him grooming often!
Today we had our first morning of prairie hoarfrost, and I jumped at the opportunity. Nothing processed yet, so for now I offer a shot from two years ago... when the crabapples were ripe and the robins ecstatic.
Photographed in my neighbour's yard, Val Marie, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Cascade Mountains – Jackson County – Oregon - USA
“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.”
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
Spring male American robin perched on a Russian Olive, a major urban source of food in fall and spring, Les Sherman Park, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 16 April 2021
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) in hawthorn tree (Crataegus sp.).
It wasn't my intention to take a silhouetted photo, but that's what my camera does on a dull gray day; I messed with it in Photoshop, but just can't get the colors I saw when I took it. So I'll pretend this is what I meant all along...
2nd & Carpenter, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 10 2008.
Well insulated robin enjoying a drink of water at the only open bar in the area.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
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Columbia Children's Arboretum, NE Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon (October 24th, 2020). 12a. Suburban arboretum and park.
Young? female, one of a flock of 10 or 12 robins feeding on the fruit of a small tree.
Here’s a photo of a adult male in the same tree--
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More photos of robins and other thrushes—
This is a female Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) in the pond's stream with an American robin (Turdus migratorius) in the background. Having multiple species at the same time isn't that unusual.
Male American Robin hoping I don't seem him as he settles in for a bath after four days of nearly solid rain. Tobiassen Park, Nevada Co, California on 10 February 2017.
Just a robin on my front lawn. This was one of the next birds I ever knew the name of, after House sparrows and gulls from when I was very young in Brighton Beach (Brooklyn), NY.
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Good morning everyone. Just a since pic of a American Red-breasted Robin (Turdus migratorius). One of many that have returned along with the milder weather. A sure sign of Spring, albeit we're not quite there yet.
While it's usually difficult to distinguish one bird from another, this one's unique in that it's the only Robin that feeds at the peanut butter filled knot holes. It did so frequently last year, and again this year when it returned.
While many people assume Robins feed strictly on insects, earthworms mainly, in fact plant matter makes up between 60 - 75% of a Robin's diet. Typically a variety of fruits, including chokecherries, hawthorn, dogwood, and sumac fruits, and juniper berries. But this is the first, and one and only Robin I've ever seen that dines on peanut butter. One day I'll be sure to get a video of it doing just that.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a truly great day and St. Patrick's Day weekend.
Lacey
PS...so you'll know, in spite of the title this pic was taken in the afternoon. Not in the morning. "Good afternoon sunshine" just didn't sound quite right :-)
ISO1600, aperture f/5.6, exposure .001 seconds (1/1600) focal length 450mm
This American Robin was spotted at the Camp Tamawaby Woodlot near Richmond, Prince Edward Island. It was one of a number of robins in the area.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-1 and M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3.
“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.”
Cascade Mountains – Jackson County – Oregon - USA
A beautiful moment as the flurries faded away and the sun broke through the clouds. The birds were feasting on the large dark berries. Fish Crows, Cedar Waxwings and American Robins..... I'm not sure what species of tree this is.
We are still under a Snowfall Warning today, 10 November 2019. Roughly 5" of fresh snow fell in the city overnight. Our temperature today is -14C (windchill -23C). "Lingering snow makes for difficult travel, amid January-like cold" says the Weather Network.
After posting nine cold, snowy, 'winter' (i.e. Alberta fall!) images this morning, I needed to finish off with a splash of warm colour. This photo was taken on 18 May 2016, in the cemetery adjacent to the Reader Rock garden. I will add what I wrote under a previously posted photo taken on the same day.
"Three days ago, on 18 May 2016, I went to what was most likely my last volunteer shift. I have been volunteering there for about 18 years and it has been a wonderful experience. However, as the number of clients constantly rises, even more so with the poor state of the economy, the problem of parking has become a real issue. Though we have to park on the nearby street, usually at the very far end of it, I now find that each time I go, I have to park further and further away. There is no sidewalk on which to walk and there are many huge trucks coming and going all the time. Makes for a dangerous walk. In winter, it will be even worse. I always walk in pain and yesterday was, I think, the final straw, when I had to park even further away. I have been volunteering at various places for the last 36 or so years, so I know I will miss it, but I was just not enjoying the long walk and always wondering if I was even going to be able to find a parking spot. I know I will miss good, long-time friends there, terribly. Unfortunately, a number of other people have also had to make the difficult decision to leave.
Anyway, after my shift, I thought I had better call in at the Reader Rock Garden, in case I don't get over there for a long time. I wasn't sure about the weather and I did feel the odd raindrop, plus it was rather windy. However, the scent around the garden was wonderful - I could have stayed there for hours, just breathing it in. Plenty of flowers to enjoy.
The few workers do such a great job of keeping this place looking beautiful. If you visit and you happen to see one of the staff or volunteers, do let them know how much you appreciate all their hard work and care. I know they would appreciate it."