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Any Robins Yet?

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Any Robins Yet?

Post by Turkeytop » Fri Mar 04, 2022 9:58 pm

One of the first harbingers of spring is always the first robin sighting. They usually start showing up around the first or second week of March.

Has anyone seen one yet?


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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by Robert Faygo » Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:21 pm

Yessir! Saw quite a few of them back in SE Michigan last weekend. Been hearing them singing too.


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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by Turkeytop » Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:33 pm

Last fall I made a Robin nesting box and mounted it up on the side of my shed. When I get back home next month, I'll be curious to see if they've used it.


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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Mar 05, 2022 6:29 am

They're a little late this year compared to the past couple years, but then again, I started seeing them pretty darn early in 2021 and 2020. :)

I heard my first robin chirps coming from a tree two weekends ago, and I saw my first robin hopping along on the ground just yesterday.



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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by Realist » Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:40 am

Wife informed me that there were 7 robins in our front yard when she got up…



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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by Bobbert » Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:04 am

I've seen them for a few weeks in a fruit tree outside my upstairs window. The geese starting returning a couple of weeks ago—their honking is also a welcome sign of spring.



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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by moldyoldie » Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:31 am

They've been hanging around here all winter in recent years. One flew into my garage a few weeks ago.
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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:21 pm

I heard them about a week and a half ago when it got to 45.


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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by paul8539 » Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:45 pm

My neighborhood usually does not get any robins. We do have a lot of geese who poop on the sidewalk. Geese pooping in the sidewalk is a better sign of spring coming than the robins.



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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by moldyoldie » Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:58 am

paul8539 wrote:
Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:45 pm
My neighborhood usually does not get any robins. We do have a lot of geese who poop on the sidewalk. Geese pooping in the sidewalk is a better sign of spring coming than the robins.
Fascinating about the geese. :lol

The robin population has exploded around here in the last ten or twenty years! There's a trio of them foraging for nesting material outside the window as I type this. One couple is building a nest in the front yew shrub, probably the same ones who had two broods in the same shrub last year.


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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by TC Talks » Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:35 am

moldyoldie wrote:
Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:31 am
They've been hanging around here all winter in recent years. One flew into my garage a few weeks ago.
I had one in the North wing of the house about March 18th. She has built a nest in the chimney and fell. I got her out safely.


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Re: Any Robins Yet?

Post by moldyoldie » Wed Apr 06, 2022 11:24 am

TC Talks wrote:
Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:35 am
moldyoldie wrote:
Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:31 am
They've been hanging around here all winter in recent years. One flew into my garage a few weeks ago.
I had one in the North wing of the house about March 18th. She has built a nest in the chimney and fell. I got her out safely.
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