Say, Dyannne,

would you mind sending that robin over here to teach my robins that trick?
Between the slugs and the deer, it's hard to grow anything around here...

At 4:51 PM -0400 7/28/98, Dyannesh at aol.com wrote:
>At home with a bad back has allowed me some 'residential' birding that I don't
>often get...and I observed a young robin, two days in a row (assuming it was
>the same bird) carefully swiping a slug in the dry dirt of the garden. Over
>and over again, in what appeared to be a clear effort to remove the slime from
>same....this went on for nearly five full minutes each time, afterwhich said
>slug was consumed by said robin.
>Anyone else observed any other birds consuming our fat garden fiends (slugs)?
>
>Dyanne Sheldon


Rob Saecker
Olympia