Saturday January 28th
It was 60° this morning on the back porch. It’s been raining lightly off and on. According to the prognosticators we can expect this weather pattern to last for most of the week.
I saw something that I haven’t seen in a while this morning. A round of robins… Or at least that’s what the Google machine tells me a flock of robins is called. It’s been years since I’ve noticed a large flock of robins on the ground around our place. It used to be a very common sight in the winter time.
Oh well, guess I’ll catch y’all on the other side…
Robins! Lucky you! I’d love for them to come this direction — enjoy them for me if they come back and hang around.
It’s really kind of sad Linda. For most of my life Large flocks of robins have been a normal wintertime experience. It’s only been for the past decade or so that they’ve vanished from my immediate area. I always assumed it was a result of the clearing of the woods behind my house. They used to be found in huge “rounds” scratching through the leaf litter in those woods.
Having grown up in this area, I always laughed at the common knowledge that robins and spring were associated together. My life experience said different… Robins were a winter bird, by spring they would be gone.