I'm glad you brought up this Robin congregating question. I work at the
UW and our UPS guy that picks up our packages every evening about 5:00 has
noticed the robins will start flocking together arund then. They all seem
to like a large pine right next to Smith Hall and just show up in droves
flying around on the inside of it and making alot of fuss. It's similar
to the behavior of crows I've seen doing this in huge flocks at the
Montlake Fill. Can anyone explain this? I told the UPS fellow I would
check with everyone out there in birdland and see what I could find out
for him. Thanks - Lizz

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Lizz Kopecek
History Dept.
University of Washington
206-543-5790
lizzz at u.washington.edu

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sandra C. Andersen. wrote:

> On Capitol Hill , the West side of Broadway in the past two days ,a two
> block area was covered with robins, at least one in every tree/shrub,roof
> top, no real "singing" or displays, just a whole mess of robins. I saw
> something like this two years ago at Montlake Fill, where the robins were on
> any branch/twig that could hold them, one even landed on me( I stood quite
> still) but those where singing and quite active.
> Sandi
> Capitol Hill
> scadane at msn.com
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