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Offline Bogmaster

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Misguided Robins
« on: February 03, 2009, 10:18:21 AM »
 Had a flock of robins show up yesterday. Thought all the snow and cold would send them back,south--but those poor devils are still around.
 Was hoping they were an early sign of spring, but I think they are just deranged.
 Tom
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2009, 01:23:35 PM »
That's funny, I saw a pair of them in a ditch that had water in it from this past warm spell. I turned the truck around to make sure that I wasn't seeing things. I'm hoping that they know something that I don't.
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2009, 05:59:43 PM »
Tom  your robins are probably surviving on high bush cranberrys and mountain ash if you got  any around...
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2009, 01:45:03 AM »
They stay here year round.
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2009, 02:38:52 AM »
Also have seen 2 flocks of robins here in VT over the weekend ( 1/31st & 2/1 ). Also had a few robins in my crabapple trees yesterday morning.
Maybe they're bringing us a early spring. ;D ;D  Yeah Right, it's 2 degrees this morning & 2 feet of snow on the ground.
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2009, 04:30:07 AM »
I seen some robins a couple weeks back don't know if they were headed north or south? Couple years back I had a flock hung around here all winter. But then it was below zero for a week at a time that winter. I always thought robins were pretty much worm and bug eaters. There is no way they could be this far north if that were true. I have to think a long the same lines as RdFx. My parents have the high bush cranberries in their yard. The berries hang there all fall and most the winter just like them tag elder berries do. Then get picked off by birds going back north in the spring.

Mac

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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2009, 04:45:33 AM »
Bog- I see Robins and yes, bluebirds all winter long down here on certain creeks-

seems strange to see them when its 10-20 below, but I do and have for years-

but this year it does seem like I've seen more all season long- esp bluebirds-
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2009, 05:02:40 AM »
Hey, I got it.
Maybe Al Gore has finally reached and convinced someone or something (the birds ) that there is really such a thing as Global Warming.
They ( the birds ) don't know that they are really freezing they just think it's warmer.  ;D
When the earthworms start coming up through the snow to sun themselves I might start to believe.  :o
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2009, 07:07:59 AM »
 Lee, niether of those species in my country.So its hard to tell at the moment what they are eating.
 Gunn,was 20 below the other night--Gore must have fooled them and the Polar Bears.
 Its one thing fooling the animals--its all the homosapiens he has fooled---that worries me.
 Tom
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2009, 03:23:03 PM »
Boy the bluebirds  have me stumped trappnman as   they eat insects.... possibly along those   spring creeks they are eating   water born insects, as ive seen them hatch during winter... plus  flying around....  I have about 125 blue bird houses out around and about  and they ususally leave about end of Oct and show up around last of April ect...
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2009, 09:15:42 AM »
Don't know what is going on with the robins, sure getting thier wires crossed!  Last year about 50 of them showed up in January with sub-zero temperatures, never seen that in my lifetime before.  I had a lot of the wolf river apples still hanging in the top of the trees and the robins ate them steady for about 10 days and then disapeared. Don't know if they all died when the apples were gone or if they flew back South. Hardly any robins showed up in the Spring so suspect they all froze to death. Asa
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2009, 06:21:37 PM »
 Several more have shown up, they are hanging around the cedar trees.
 No berries left,unless they are finding them in the duff.
 Tom
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2009, 03:54:41 AM »
Lee- I see the bluebirds on the creeks that always stay open- I'm thinking they are feeding at the waters edge?
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Re: Misguided Robins
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2009, 03:10:16 AM »
If the robins show up here too early they survive on mountain ash and sumac. Usually they show up around the first of April so they still get snowed on a time or two.
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