[Tweeters] What did Robins do before ...

[Thomas Dorrance]

And Robins especially love ripe blueberries. I'm getting slaughtered.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:46 PM J Christian Kessler <1northraven at gmail.com>
wrote:


> 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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