[Tweeters] What did Robins do before ...

[J Christian Kessler]

I remember a robin at the top of a Ponderosa Pine at about 11,000 feet on a
steep slope in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just singing its lungs out -
nothing even close to level ground or or any grass within miles.  I lived
in Virginia then and was kind of stunned, I had to climb about 500 feet
up-slope from where I first was to get a level look at the bird to make
sure it was a Robin and not some western bird I didn't know at the time.

in my experience these days in northwest WA, the "American Lawn Thrush"
loves mountain slopes, especially gravel roads, in the summer months.

Chris Kessler
Seattle

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:17 PM Jerry Tangren <kloshewoods at outlook.com>
wrote:


> I believe they were a mountain meadow species. When we began putting

> meadows (aka lawns) in our yard, they moved right in.

>

> Lorna and I were in Nome, Alaska the third week of June. One of the common

> species of the willow scrub on the Seward Peninsula is the Robin.

>

> —Lorna & Jerry Tangren

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> Hi,

>

>    So when I think of a robin - it is in the yard working the lawn for

> worms and insects.  This has been true for my entire life (more than 70).

> True enough that I've started to consider seeing a robin where there

> wasn't some form of lawn near as 'exceptional'.  A "lawn" would be any

> area where it is mowed several times a year - not necessarily the

> manicured lawns so many of us have.

>    We used to see a lot of robins in our yard.  We converted our lawn to

> all native plants (no grass).  Now we still have the occasional robin

> but no where near as many as when we had a lawn.

>

>    So my question for this group is "where did the robins feed - before

> humans started planting lawns?".

>                                               - Jim in Burlington

>

>

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