Don's Blog Robins - Addendum

It is always humbling to find out that you didn't know something you thought you knew. The American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
is a most common bird. Wherever I have lived they have lived year round. Given that their name is migrators it is not a stretch to think that they might migrate. So my group of robins could just have been part of a migration. The apparently can fly in groups of fifty to thousands. Because I have not seen it does not preclude this.

They usually separate in the daytime to forage for food and congregate together at night in the trees.

Now as to their group name - all that sent in a suggested name are correct. There is no official ornithological name for a group of
American robins. In Britain the Royal Ornithology Trust has named robins in a group a 'round' of robins. And there it gets interesting.
American robins were named after the shape and color of British robins but the birds are not the same. The American robin is a thrush
while the British robin is an Old World flycatcher.

Each spring at mating time one of my robins starts flying into my widows. Crash!!!! Crash!!!! If I do anything to have it stop then it just moves to another side of the house and Crash!!!! No window has been broken and after 3-4 weeks it stops. I have not seen this written up but my
opinion is that during the mating season the robin sees its reflection as another male competitor and he attacks it.

Its fun to keep on learning.

First Flower for the Day - Crocus 2-27-21

Ready or not here they come. The first flower of the year has warmed my heart. 

The crocus is in the iris family. There will be plenty more to come. 

      Winter Awakening 

     Cave dweller peeks out

  Dawn calls behind sheltered clouds

    Hibernate no more

  Beth Murphy, haiku and tanka poet

 

WINTER AWAKENING

Cave dweller peeks out
Dawn calls behind sheltered clouds
Hibernate no more

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WINTER AWAKENING

Cave dweller peeks out
Dawn calls behind sheltered clouds
Hibernate no more
Haiku by Beth Murphy, haiku & tanka poet

Read more at: https://www.icreatedaily.com/spring-haiku-poems/
Copyright © iCreate Daily

WINTER AWAKENING

Cave dweller peeks out
Dawn calls behind sheltered clouds
Hibernate no more
Haiku by Beth Murphy, haiku & tanka poet

Read more at: https://www.icreatedaily.com/spring-haiku-poems/
Copyright © iCreate Daily

Don's Blog - A Field of Robins 2-25-21

After numbing temperatures and heavy snow last week we are all melted and starting to green up

this week. While walking in the field behind our house I came upon this strange gathering of a dozen

robins. I have only ever seen them in ones and twos. I wonder whites going on here. 

I don't know the term for a group of robins but this was definitely a flock or covey, congregation, clutch, crowd, horde, mob, 

mass, multitude, host, army, pack, swarm, sea, gaggle, collection, gathering, assembly, throng, cluster, troop, number, or 

band of robins. What's your choice?