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<div>I believe they were a mountain meadow species. When we began putting meadows (aka lawns) in our yard, they moved right in. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">—Lorna & Jerry Tangren</div>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi,<br>
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So when I think of a robin - it is in the yard working the lawn for<br>
worms and insects. This has been true for my entire life (more than 70).<br>
True enough that I've started to consider seeing a robin where there<br>
wasn't some form of lawn near as 'exceptional'. A "lawn" would be any<br>
area where it is mowed several times a year - not necessarily the<br>
manicured lawns so many of us have.<br>
We used to see a lot of robins in our yard. We converted our lawn to<br>
all native plants (no grass). Now we still have the occasional robin<br>
but no where near as many as when we had a lawn.<br>
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So my question for this group is "where did the robins feed - before<br>
humans started planting lawns?".<br>
- Jim in Burlington<br>
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