And Robins especially love ripe blueberries. I'm getting slaughtered.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:46 PM J Christian Kessler <
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I remember a robin at the top of a Ponderosa Pine at about 11,000 feet on
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a steep slope in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just singing its lungs out
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- nothing even close to level ground or or any grass within miles. I lived
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in Virginia then and was kind of stunned, I had to climb about 500 feet
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up-slope from where I first was to get a level look at the bird to make
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sure it was a Robin and not some western bird I didn't know at the time.
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in my experience these days in northwest WA, the "American Lawn Thrush"
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loves mountain slopes, especially gravel roads, in the summer months.
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Chris Kessler
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Seattle
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:17 PM Jerry Tangren <kloshewoods at outlook.com>
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I believe they were a mountain meadow species. When we began putting
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meadows (aka lawns) in our yard, they moved right in.
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Lorna and I were in Nome, Alaska the third week of June. One of the
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common species of the willow scrub on the Seward Peninsula is the Robin.
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-;Lorna & Jerry Tangren
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Hi,
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So when I think of a robin - it is in the yard working the lawn for
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worms and insects. This has been true for my entire life (more than 70).
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True enough that I've started to consider seeing a robin where there
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wasn't some form of lawn near as 'exceptional'. A "lawn" would be any
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area where it is mowed several times a year - not necessarily the
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manicured lawns so many of us have.
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We used to see a lot of robins in our yard. We converted our lawn to
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all native plants (no grass). Now we still have the occasional robin
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but no where near as many as when we had a lawn.
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So my question for this group is "where did the robins feed - before
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humans started planting lawns?".
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- Jim in Burlington
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