"MacTech" wrote
> "robin" wrote -jg DeleteThis @comcast.com>...
> > Put some raisins out for the robins before they leave - they love them.
> > "Ann" wrote > > > This is the second Fall I've had dozens of robins
descend on an overgrown
> > > field between the house and the woods. There has been logging around
me
> > > for 5 years and perhaps they've been displaced from where they would
> > > normally stop. But whatever the reason, I'm glad to see them.
>
> I'm envious! Normally we have quite a few robins around during the
> spring, summer and early fall here in western Wisconsin, but this
> year, we're under severe drought conditions and I haven't hardly seen
> any robins since last spring. Usually we have many bluebirds, too, and
> meadowlarks and killdeer. But the bluebirds, meadowlarks and killdeer
> were all scarce this year.
>
> LeAnn
One reason I was so pleased to see them was that for the first time this
year, none nested close enough to the house to hear them when the parents
take the fledglings food-hunting (peep, peep). Knock on wood, the 5-year
below normal precip here may have broken this summer. But since there are
plenty of springs and a perennial stream as water sources, I don't think it
was the primary reason for the (continuing) decline in robins and other
species. Great horned owls, TVs, catbirds, and humming birds went missing
this summer.
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