Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:37:19 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Daniel F. McDonald" Subject: Re: American Robins in Silver Spring, Mont. County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi------ Perhaps a week ago, we had approximately 100 robins spread out in my yard and the three neighboring yards. We see this every now and again, although the flocks are usually more like 20-30 birds. Their target is a very heavily laden holly tree in the yard behind us. Georgia McDonald Towson, Balt Co, MD dangeo@erols.com "Rob (Robert) Hilton" wrote: > Hi, > > Did anyone else notice a movement of robins this morning? There have been > a lot of Robins in the Centerville/Manassas area during the last few weeks, > but this is the largest congregation I've found all winter near my home or > my office. > > This morning at 7 am. when I stepped outside to go to work I heard a robin > singing. Fine, great, it _is_ February, with a warm spell on the way, and > I have already seen the species from my yard this year. To my amazement I > realized that a dozen American Robins were in the tree across the street, > with more arriving, and others passing over without putting down. Some 40 > to 45 took off and headed northeast all at once. By the time I reached the > car one minute later, I could hear new robins that had arrived in the > interim. Lisa later saw three from the kitchen while she was washing > dishes. > > Best, > > Rob Hilton > robert@csa.com > Bethesda, Maryland > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================