hum ... I think I found your missing robins ... LOL ...

I was at Ridgefield NWR late yesterday afternoon
(saturday) and in a field on the back stretch
there were Robins all over the area
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... I easily counted 50 and would
guess there were more than that ... I've never
seen so many Robins all in one spot ...

Lyn




At 05:48 PM 9/14/2008, you wrote:
>Dear Carol and Tweeters,
>
>Although I think that robins have eventually
>turned up on my day list just about every day
>lately, there are certainly far fewer of them
>around lately where I go birding. Some days, I
>visit ten or fifteen birding spots, and robins
>show up at only two or three of them, and in
>small numbers. There are only a very few robins
>showing up in my yard now. I am not seeing
>robins on lawns very much in Lyman or
>Sedro-Woolley. When I do see them these days,
>they are often in flocks of ten or so, foraging
>on forested paths or along quiet roads. Dusk and
>dawn seem to produce far more robins than daytime.
>
>Here is a silly statistic. American Robins are
>my number-one most often sighted bird, with
>Eurasian Starlings second. However, every year
>around late August, the number of starling
>sightings in my database starts to grow quickly,
>as robins taper off. Usually by February, the
>robins take over as "most often seen and heard,"
>before the number of starling sightings can
>catch up to the robin sightings. This statistic
>has nothing to do with quantity seen,
>though--starlings are way out in front on that score.
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Gary Bletsch Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit
>County), USA garybletsch at yahoo.com
>
>
>--- Carol Riddell <cariddell at earthlink.net> schrieb am Mo, 15.9.2008:
>
> > Von: Carol Riddell <cariddell at earthlink.net>
> > Betreff: [Tweeters] Have You Ever NOT Seen a Robin?
> > An: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> > Datum: Montag, 15. September 2008, 1:39
> > Hi Tweets,
> >
> > A bird walk at Edmonds Marsh, Willow Creek Fish Hatchery,
> > and the
> > Point Edwards public path this morning uncovered some nice
> > birds but
> > there wasn't a robin in sight! I can't recall the
> > last time that
> > happened to me. Seems like every day's list starts
> > with robin and
> > then moves on from there. This walk was part of Puget
> > Sound Bird
> > Fest at Edmonds. We started at the Marsh at 7:45 a.m.
> > Here are the
> > birds we saw:
> >
> > Virginia Rail (seen and heard)
> > Common Yellowthroat (1 juv.)
> > House Finch
> > European Starling
> > Song Sparrow
> > Marsh Wren (seen and heard)
> > Barn Swallow
> > Glaucous-winged Gull
> > Mallard
> > Killdeer
> > Wilson's Snipe (1)
> > Western Sandpiper (1)
> > Green-winged Teal
> > Black-capped Chickadee
> > Cedar Waxwing
> > Anna's Hummingbird
> > American Crow
> > Cooper's Hawk (1)
> > Pine Siskin
> > American Goldfinch
> > Belted Kingfisher (male & female)
> > Rock Pigeon
> > Steller's Jay
> > Northern Flicker
> >
> > There were a couple of Pine Siskins feeding with a large
> > flock of
> > Goldfinches at the far end of the Point Edwards public path
> > where
> > fireweed and thistle have gone to seed. As we came back
> > down the
> > hill to the hatchery we saw probably 10-15 Steller's
> > Jays fly across
> > the road and into some tall conifers. Some American
> > Wigeons were at
> > Shell Creek (one third mile north of the Edmonds ferry
> > dock) later
> > this morning.
> >
> > Carol Riddell
> > Edmonds
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