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This thread is very strange to me, in the UK Robins are seen more often in the winter months because of their red breast against a backdrop of white snow.
On one of our doggy walks there is a Country Lane where they must be breeding as there are loads of them quite tame too, they will let you get quite close.
That part of the beauty of owning a dog, going on our Country walks and seeing the wildlife at its best.
The robin you see in the UK is a different bird than the American robin, although they are in the same family.
Yours is Erithacus rubecula; the American one is Turdus migratorius.
We had some last January and they usually hang around late into November in Pa. I heard a few calling( sounding sad, maybe it was the snow) yesterday. It has been below normal temperature wise. I can think that maybe they were chased out of their winter spots in Delaware and New Jersey by the heavier snows down there.
They have food to eat, sumac berries and crabapples and I've seen them in dogwood trees eating something . I also tossed out some raisins by our birdbath.
Up here in far northern Maine it's business as usual here, though we've been to Midstate (Bangor) before in winter since we needed something at Home Depot - Their outdoor garden center makes like an absolute haven for summer birds. I talked to the manager of the garden center and he doesn't like it too much, since they steal the woodchips to build their nests, and I've heard about birds swooping into the store itself to burglarize the bird food. Heh
looked out my window as i was dressing this morning and counted 8-10 robins in my front yard, searching for their breakfast.... charlie-chubby-cat was LOVING that view......
If you want to attract robins to your yard, put out some raisins. The birds really enjoy them!
Often they just enjoy fresh water, too.
When I lived in Colorado, there were always a few robins who toughed it out and stayed here for the cold season.
Then around March, flocks and flocks would come back, and they always seemed awfully thirsty. They would gather around our birdbath and even the dog water dishes, splashing and drinking.
In Florida now, I only ever see them at the end of the winter, February into March as they pass through. But they do stay for a good month or so, feeding and relaxing.
We also get cedar waxwings here for a month, which I hardly ever saw in Colorado.
I just made a post on the weather board about seeing Robins. We saw a large flock yesterday and today they were all over the front yard along with starlings. They seemed to be eating worms in the grass where the snow melted. 6 inches of new snow is forecast tonite so they better hurry.
I suggested that maybe some disturbances with the earths magnetic shield might have something to do with it. Magnetic north keeps heading towards Siberia at the rate of 40 miles a year and will eventually flip to the south pole. And the earths magnetic sphere is weakening like its been for the past two centuries.
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