[Tweeters] robin extravaganza postscript

[Robert O'Brien via Tweeters]

We have this every year, often up to maybe 50 Robins..  We have an
ornamental grape growing up into the top a 50' Aspen tree.  Small grapes
are easily swallowed I guess.  These Robins are extremely furtive so that
we rarely get a good look at them. They dash from nearby dense Doug Firs
and then dive into the Aspen.We can only see parts of their bodies in the
aspen and nothing in the Firs..
But this happened here about a month ago when the grapes were ripe.  We now
have an 8 ft. Cotoneaster Cornubia absolutely covered with red berries.
But, nothing goes for them until late in the winter, and then only with
very adverse weather.where little else is available.  I've heard that these
are pataable only after some freezing weather, but even then ,with a mild
winter they stay on the cotoneaster all winter.
Bob OBrien  Carver OR

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Well, I first saw the robins in the next-door rowan tree at 1:30 or so,

> and they were still there until a few minutes ago, constantly flying in and

> out. In two hours, it looks as if they stripped that tree of at least 80%

> of its fruits. The robins will be excreting their seeds all over the place,

> but I guess most of them don’t sprout, as we don’t have rowans growing

> everywhere.

>

> The German word for rowan is Vogelbeere, bird berry. This is a European

> tree, *Sorbus aucuparia*, but we have native species of *Sorbus*

> (mountain ash) as well, and I presume birds like them just as much.

>

> It was a two-thrush day—a Hermit Thrush, a species we don’t see most

> winters, bathed in our fountain for a while.

>

> Dennis Paulson

> Maple Leaf, Seattle

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