Last night watching the 5PM news I glanced out the window at some movement and saw a half dozen robins in a neighbor’s tree.
A couple minutes ago I took a peek at the same tree and if there had to have been 60-70 robins in it. I went to get the camera , came back and they were gone. Would have been a nice picture. No pic, but the news that spring is here is even better yet.
l plowed snow from around the house this winter, so I have a bare lawn now, the robins were on it 2 days ago. DK.
Robins nest on my patio from last year and real interested to see if they come back to it.
Back on March 1st I had filled the bird feeders and a few minutes later several fluffy Robins came by. It was nice to see them and I’m glad we don’t have that much snow anymore!
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Its like someone turned on the robin release switch. They are everywhere right now. Where the snow is off the slopes in our yard and in the park robins are thick. They’re running up and down the paved walking path in the park like it a race track. Last year those crazy birds took over my suet feeders….. I hope they have bad memories.lol
Couple days ago, Trenton Island was delivered it portion of robin for the year.
my wife said she seen one way up this way!!!!!!i’m wondering when its gonna snow next?????? they always say robins get snowed on at least twice!!!!!! 
Back on March 1st I had filled the bird feeders and a few minutes later several fluffy Robins came by. It was nice to see them and I’m glad we don’t have that much snow anymore!
What did you put out in your feeders for food? I tried everything last year and they wouldn’t touch it. They seemed to prefer my leftover nightcrawlers. Lol!
My neighborhood is already filling up with Robins. Lots of Crab Apples to get them by till worm season.
I just fill the feeders with a mixture of sunflower, cracked corn, and safflower seeds. We mix the three large bags into a bin in the garage and I fill the feeders from an ice cream bucket. Now that I think about it, do Robins eat these seeds? Or maybe it was just a coincidence that they came fluttering by shortly after filling the feeders. I did dump a little out “on accident” for the birdies hanging out on the ground. As the snow has melted away – it’s a bird seed mess under my feeders. 
robins only eat bugs and worms from what i understand, i put out these dried mealworms….they certainly do a number on them!!!!!
robins only eat bugs and worms from what i understand, i put out these dried mealworms….they certainly do a number on them!!!!!
Well I am here to tell ya that suet feeders are not safe from Robins. Its a riot watching those ground pounders trying to hang on wire, but the sure do eat the suet.
I have one out I guess I will need to watch
I put out a block of the meal worm stuff that looks like a worm version of a rice krispy treat and no love on that either.
Anyone feel like they crept north earlier than usual this year? Seems like they’re usually following the edge of spring weather as it goes north but several times in the dead of Grand Forks, ND winter this year I saw them around town and in the country.
Robins are hardier than most give them credit for. We’ve had Robins all winter here in Rochester, just not in the masses that have shown up lately. The large waves of robins in the spring tend to follow retreating snow cover from south to north so if they can find dirt or grass they’ll move up. Temps don’t seem to be that big a factor. We see robins all fluffed up with snow on them at times.
I am looking at a hillside in the park from my window where the snow is pretty much gone right down to the paved path and the robins are all over it already this morning.
Our local Pileated Woodpecker is visiting right now. I have an 18″ X 4″ birch log drilled with three 2″ holes all the way thru that I put my venison suet/peanut butter mix in and that critter sure likes to eat there. We’ve actually decided we have a pair of them since one is much larger than the other and when one goes away the other is right ther to work the log. Maybe we’ll get to see fledged chicks this year? Last year we had several families of downies here that ate like horses.
Why doesn’t the common grackle get any respect? I think they are beautiful birds with stunning yellow eyes. I think it is cool too that some have purple iridescent heads and some have blue.
My Dad has red-winged blackbirds at his feeder every year. The nearest marsh is at least a half mile away. He’s in a townhouse complex and his feeder is a tube-type for cardinals,etc. Darnedest thing
Why doesn’t the common grackle get any respect? I think they are beautiful birds with stunning yellow eyes. I think it is cool too that some have purple iridescent heads and some have blue.
why????????? there mean birds that chase other birds away. they rate right up there with starlings……same as them annoying red wing blackbirds. there all target practice.
We had robins all winter in our neighborhood. Lots of crab apples kept them fat. I distinctly recall walking the dog on one of those -30 days we had and seeing a crab apple tree with at least a dozen robins in it! 
If it flies and is pretty much black, its a target. Starlings and grackles will come to feed at a feeder and throw seed out they don’t want. When the catch tray is full it goes all over the ground and in gardens. Plus they crap all over the place and its not dainty little droppings like small bird make. I wish using a .22 and bird shot was legal here in town.
Now about the robins….Ma and I ran some errands and our route took us past three different soccer complexes [this city needs to cut those soccer fields back to one, for that wuss activity] and every one was covered with robins. Ironically all three of those fields have the flowering crabs along the adjacent streets and what robins weren’t on the grass were in those trees.
Time to put the robin blocks up where they like to nest. They’re messier than heck too.
They were here first 
Bluejays are the biggest pricks when it comes to feeders. I’ve never had a problem with grackles because they prefer to forage on the ground. But I have seen that learned behavior in Mourning Doves. One or too perch on the feeder and chuck as much as they can to the ground below. The simpler solution is to have a platform feeder on the ground that gives the ground feeders no reason to go on the perch feeders.
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