<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Robins have been plentiful year-round in this Cedar Park ravine (north Seattle), never more so than when the blueberries ripen. While quick to the harvest, especially this year, they're slow to recognize that the resident crows never miss a trick or a chick. Baby robins haven't fledged here in eons. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Tom Dorrance</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM Diane Yorgason-Quinn via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3272321157789729711">
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About 3 weeks ago, and for another week, I had what seemed like hundreds of robins in the very high madrona trees after those berries. I was in my house and heard this huge racket, ran out and saw them going crazy way up there, about 4 stories high.</div>
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I actually put a recording of their noise on eBird: <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S200723095" id="m_3272321157789729711LPlnk440195" target="_blank">
https://ebird.org/checklist/S200723095</a></div>
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<div id="m_3272321157789729711divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu</a>> on behalf of Robert O'Brien via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 23, 2024 5:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dennis Paulson <<a href="mailto:dennispaulson@comcast.net" target="_blank">dennispaulson@comcast.net</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] robin extravaganza postscript</font>
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<div dir="ltr">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..
<div>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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>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.
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<div>The German word for rowan is Vogelbeere, bird berry. This is a European tree,
<i>Sorbus aucuparia</i>, but we have native species of <i>Sorbus</i> (mountain ash) as well, and I presume birds like them just as much.</div>
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<div>It was a two-thrush day—a Hermit Thrush, a species we don’t see most winters, bathed in our fountain for a while.</div>
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