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  1. What an amazing experience! Years ago my I was in my parents backyard when I saw wave after wave of some sort of raptor birds flying above me. There had to be thousands. It was definitely a migration. I had never seen anything like this. I grabbed binoculars to get a better look. I still couldn’t tell what kind of birds they were, but I could see that they had the kind of beaks that hawks and falcons have. I laid on top of the trampoline and watched them for hours. It was such an awesome experience. To this day I still have a recurring dream where I witness a migration of all sorts of birds like flamingoes, owls, geese, etc.

    1. Very beautiful to see all the pretty birds o
      n your patio. Lucky you.

  2. Two separate times we have had the giant gathering of robins in our yard and the houses right around ours. They flew swirling down onto the branches of big old oak trees. There were several huge flocks swirling up and around and back down into the trees. They were all in everyone’s birdbaths, bird feeders, trees and bushes with any berries and in all of the yards on the ground pecking around. My persimmon trees were filled with them and so was the ground beneath. They were pecking at persimmons.
    They were all making their little robin call. Our visits both happened after mid November. As it got dark, they all perched in all of the big old trees in every tree I could see from my house in all of the yards. As it got dark they were all doing that swirling down of the flocks into the trees. By daylight they were gone. I missed their flying away. Only one lone robin stayed here around our yard. He survived fine during the winter. I don’t know what he ate all winter. It felt miraculous to see and hear that many robins all at the same time. I am so glad that you and little Charlie and big Ivy got to see them.

    I hope those robins are the ones that live around here on their way back home to my neighborhood in Misssouri. I usually see and hear the first ones after mid February. I hope they don’t get here before our predicted zero degree weather gets gone. The earthworms couldn’t get to the top of the ground here if they had steel drills to tunnnel up with.

  3. Wow! Those are really cool pics of the robins!
    I wait every year to see some robins bc then Spring will be coming soon!

  4. Brenda… it seems you have a gift of being mindful and “living in the moment” which I’ve been trying to do more of in the past few years.   Paying attention to things, especially nature, helps me “get out of my own head” and is calming for me.  We used to live on some acreage and we saw a lot of wildlife.  I miss it.  The 2 things I enjoyed most were the bluebirds and hummingbirds.  Living in town we still see hummers which is always a pleasure. Thanks for saring your observations with us. (by the way to clippers came yesterday and they’re great!)

  5. I don’t know what you changed, but the adds/links on here today are horrible..
    Sorry…

  6. That is so cool!!! Thanks so much for sharing—and for feeding all those birds!!!

  7. You were certainly blessed by nature!! What an event to witness and how fortunate that you were home and that all three of you were able to watch it. Fabulous!!

  8. WOW!! What an incredible thing to witness. Glad you captured the pics.

  9. Aren’t the robins beautiful? They passed through here a few weeks ago and I took a video as they filled our trees. I just love them. Several stayed behind and we had three in our bird bath yesterday.

  10. We had a similar event happen a couple of days ago…except the birds were Cedar Waxwings…just gillions of them swooping down to the yards, trees, and gutters and then swooping back up into the sky. It did remind me of the birds movie…in which I almost ran out of the theater because it was so disturbing. Nature never disappoints!

  11. Our daughter in law posted a picture of the robins in their back yard…not quite that many but the bush was full, she said they stayed about 20 minutes and left as soon as they had stripped the berries from the bush. She said they have done this several years.

  12. WOW!!! Lucky you and Charlie and Ivy Lou! Great pix, especially the big one ~

  13. That was wonderful! We have quite a few birds in our yard, but never something like this. I’m so glad you have pictures of them.

  14. And you just said the other day you haven’t seen any robins. I’m sure they made a mess but lucky you. By the way what kind of tree is that?

  15. What a blessing to see them. Glad you got the pictures. I saw a bunch of birds all together yesterday . Not all robins but there were some.

  16. Wow! That’s truly amazing, I’m so happy that you were able to observe this and take so many photos!

  17. What a treat! It’s funny how Charlie and Ivy sat and observed the show.

  18. What fun that must have been. I would have thought Ivy was cackling at all of them. My daughter started feeding the birds and hummingbirds last summer. Our yard is full every day with their singing. But as of late we have a hawk that purchases on a utility pole several times a day and the yard gets very quiet.

  19. Wow! What a sight to see. That surely is a once in a lifetime happening. So glad you got such good pictures to share.

  20. Brenda, this was just beautiful~~~ what a treat
    Thank you for sharing

  21. This happens every year in my front yard. Hundreds of robins descent and eat ll the berries off the trees and leave, it seems, all at once. I eagerly await this every January or February.

  22. Isn’t that something that you were home and awake when the robins came?? I had no idea they did such a thing either. In one of the remote locations we lived in some years ago, we had a weekend of HUNDREDS of hummingbirds…we were kept very busy putting out sugar water for them…it even snowed and I felt so sorry because it probably got some of them. But they disappeared after a couple days and we moved away so I don’t know if that was a yearly thing or not. They were not even afraid of us when we went out to refill the fast emptying feeders.

  23. I had witnessed a similar thing with Robins several years ago in WV. It is so amazing to see!

  24. That’s so exciting! It gives us folks up north in Canada that Spring will be here in another few months. I’ve been able to watch Robins amass like this in the fall before they head south. I’ve always been jealous that they could just pack their bags and take off down south. Would it be so easy for those of us stuck up here! 😁 The robins always hit the park at the corner of my street where I always walked my little Bear. He now officially hit and passed his 17th birthday so every day he’s still here I feel very blessed. I do feel sorry for the robins when they finally make it up here at the end of April because the temps still fall below freezing at night and snow still happens in May when their babies ate hatching. Mama Robin really has a big job to keep the eggs warm until they hatch.

  25. Wow, wow and wow! What a strange but yet delightful sight to see. I can well imagine how you, Charlie and Ivy were in awe of such a sight. I’m so glad you got some pics to share – thank you!!!

  26. What a wonderful sight! What kind of berries are they eating? And lovely pics!
    Mary

    1. I can never remember the name of that tree. Some of you have told me in the comments before. But I blank on it. In the spring it has tons of white blossoms that smell wonderful. It is of course, as you can see, an evergreen tree.

  27. Oh my gosh was this amazing. What a treat for you to see this. Here in the midwest when we see Robins it means Spring is for sure here. I wish I saw that many Robins here lol! They do not come back here until Spring is definitely here. Maybe you will be getting an early Spring. How beautiful. What a great treat for you.

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