The Robins are Back

Posted on April 8, 2007
Filed Under Birds |

And boy are they pissed. Having to scratch for bugs under leaves covered with two inches of snow does not a happy Robin make. I feel like I should take a rake & clear a few patches in the back yard for them.

Update: There are about fifty goldfinches (the males now beginning to show their bright yellow feathers) & another fifty juncos, along with the usual chickadees — none of which is unusual — but there are four or five grackles & two red winged blackbirds out scratching at the snow beneath feeders.

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2 Responses to “The Robins are Back”

  1. Peter Rennick on April 8th, 2007 7:50 pm

    MORE

    There’s a song
    each year builds
    her nest in a hole
    above my door by
    stealth and craft
    wears and weaves
    a thoughtless thing
    of passionate impulse
    above my making
    more of the invisible
    world’s finished
    music that yet
    lingers here as
    long as mercy lets.

  2. Paul Lamble on April 9th, 2007 4:40 pm

    You’ve been tagged.