Does anyone here wonder where their robins go during the winter?

The answer, for this year at least, is my street.  This morning when I walked outside, I had a flashback to a certain Alfred Hitchcock movie.   :o  There were at least thirty robins in the yard across the street, and between my yard and my two next door neighbors', there was a minimum of forty!  If I had a camera phone, I'd have snapped a picture to show; they were all so cute hopping around.   :)

What a sight! In the town where I grew up we used to have the most fascinating collection of winter birds. Robins and Blue Jays sitting around not far from a power line lined with little green Quaker Parrots. Not to mention the woodpeckers putting holes in the 50 foot palm trees EVERY SINGLE MORNING.

The best place to see winter birds, even if they were not the most graceful or cute, was a little restaurant called Iris's across the street from where the (coincidentally enough) Blue Jays baseball team did their spring training. You could see all kinds of winter birds like Pennsylvania Snow Birds, New York Snow Birds, and several blue haired shuffle-birds (I slay me).

Next time, buy, rent, or steal a camera. That's a picture I'd love to see! Set us up the camera!

Hey!  :D

In the city where I live there just happens to be a restaurant called Iris's across the street from where the Blue Jays did their spring training and also the public library.  I'll refrain from posting on the boards the name of the city, but there is an abandoned railroad track converted into a public walking/biking trail nearby.  Does this sound familiar?   :)

I think we're speaking of the same place. Small world!

I happend to see a blue jay and a robin today as well.  They were both in my view, but sitting on two different trees.  I went and grabbed my binoculars. I didn't realize that a blue jay has such a long beak.  I'm not sure why they were there, they were beautiful to watch but it was very cold outside.  Perhaps they came back for the early spring that has been predicted.

Do blue jays migrate?  I swear I've seen them here all winter.  We have several feeders up on our deck.  I love to watch the cardinals and woodpeckers at our main feeder during the winter.  The finches feed at our thisle feeder.  It can be quite a sight during feeding time.  

I don't expect to see any robins for at least another month.

bikerbraid wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 2:25pm:

Do blue jays migrate?

I really wouldn't know.  It was the first one I'd seen all winter though.

Not all the birds head to Florida...we get quite a few in Texas too!  For the past two months we have been going through about 50 lbs of bird seed a week.  We have a long pole with five different feeders in our backyard and two feeders in the front yard.  We have literally hundreds of birds every day.  Cardinals, blue jays, blue birds, robins, goldfinchs, wrens, and even a flock of doves have fed at our feeders this year to name just a few.  It is interesting that different types of birds prefer different types of seed.  Smaller birds seem to like thistle, while larger ones want sunflower seeds.  We keep a mix of different seed in garbage cans to fill our feeders.