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My new office/broom-cupboard-full-of-books at our wonderful new home in Great Chalfield looks straight out at what I fully intend to be the most important bird feeding-station for - well, miles around (though the fact that the entire countryside surrounded our little garden appears to be one of the better-stocked feeding-stations I’ve seen for a long [...]

Though it is a myth, of course, that American Robins are not around in winter, I still enjoyed my first robins of spring yesterday in Flushing Meadows Park and Kissena Park in Queens.  They were around in numbers, feeding on invertebrates found in both grassy and disturbed areas.  Their tut-tut-tuts when disturbed were music to [...]

A great question was sent into the 10,000 Birds Clinic today that has triggered off a train of thoughts and that led inevitably to this post. The questioner, Kathy, sent in three photos of a rather scruffy bird she’d found by her Toronto home which she thought she could identify but wasn’t 100% sure. Somewhat [...]

I returned to the robins’ nest I posted about last week on Monday afternoon to see that the four baby robins are growing amazingly fast! They have to grow fast, as they will leave the nest about two weeks after hatching. The nestlings here are about six days old.

They also have to [...]

The robin that I blogged about earlier this week is now a proud parent! Either three or four eggs hatched and mom and dad are busy feeding the hungry nestlings.

A quick stop lunchtime today revealed mom incubating the baby robins, keeping them warm on such a chilly day:

After only two or three minutes she flew [...]

New York still languishes on the icier edge of the Ides of March, but flocks of eager American Robins have sprung up around the muddy fields of my neighborhood with an alacrity that even a crocus could envy. Though we tire of robins once less commonplace birds appear, these birds herald blessed spring. I was [...]

American Robin Turdus migratorius
North America. Various dates 2004/05/06
 
The most abundant and widespread North American thrush, American Robins are - as the name suggests - native to the Nearctic region. They occur year-round in southern Canada from Newfoundland to British Columbia, throughout most of the United States and along the Sierra Madre into southern Mexico. They [...]