First Robins!

[thistlebloom]

I glanced out the kitchen window just now and there are two big fat robins scratching around on a little patch of bare ground!
Yippee!

With warming temps hopefully they will soon have more ground to choose from.

And my Snowdrops are once again exposed and looking no worse for the wear of the winter sequel. And AND I just saw a tulip bud by the front door!

 

[ducks4you]

i Saw my first robins about a week ago. It never gets old.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I've seen robins here since around the second week of February. I have tulips pushing up threw the ground. MontyJ has ordered bee's and I'm thinking about getting some more hens.

 

[majorcatfish]

just a matter of time till the bluebirds start showing up....

 

[Carol Dee]

HA !!! @majorcatfish a bluebird was spotted here already! We have also had whole flocks of redwing black birds and robins. The resident swans at the parks wetlands are back as well and some killdeer and kestrels. Spring is indeed on the way.

 

[majorcatfish]

cool your one up on me... really looking forward to once it warms up to sit outside and hear their songs...

 

[Carol Dee]

cool your one up on me... really looking forward to once it warms up to sit outside and hear their songs...

One up on you!!! That does not happen often.

 

[digitS']

Thistle' , I wasn't sure that I wanted to read this.

I had a wave of jealousy hit me yesterday when I saw a pair of robins. They weren't in my neighborhood! No, they were north of Spokane, of all places. Not as far north as Deer Park, where it was -14°f less than 10 days ago. Still, you would have thought that we offer them a more hospitable environment ...

Hey! There are wind gusts of 35mph today. Maybe they blew over the Selkirks and that they are the same robins!

Steve
who hadn't seen a robin all winter, hasn't even seen a starling in weeks! i guess that's pretty much okay ...

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Thistle' , I wasn't sure that I wanted to read this.

I had a wave of jealousy hit me yesterday when I saw a pair of robins. They weren't in my neighborhood! No, they were north of Spokane, of all places. Not as far north as Deer Park, where it was -14°f less than 10 days ago. Still, you would have thought that we offer them a more hospitable environment ...

Hey! There are wind gusts of 35mph today. Maybe they blew over the Selkirks and that they are the same robins!

Steve
who hadn't seen a robin all winter, hasn't even seen a starling in weeks! i guess that's pretty much okay ...

She made me jump up out of the chair and look out all windows. Not a sign of a robin. Really, I have seen very few birds for months. I heard some doves and geese a few times. I am not sure, but I heard a raven. I guess they are ravens and not crows. The big black birds walking around town like they own the place. Aren't crows usually outside of town?

 

[thistlebloom]

She made me jump up out of the chair and look out all windows. Not a sign of a robin. Really, I have seen very few birds for months. I heard some doves and geese a few times. I am not sure, but I heard a raven. I guess they are ravens and not crows. The big black birds walking around town like they own the place. Aren't crows usually outside of town?

Usually ravens are much larger with a coarser head and beak. They are also more likely to be alone, whereas crows hang out in family groups.