[obol] Robin-palooza and holly berries

[Dennis P. Vroman]

This sounds typical of Robins in search of food.  When food starts to get 
scarce, that shrub/tree with berries looks pretty attractive to them.  When 
we lived in Grants Pass, we had a large Pyracantha (spelling?) bush at our 
place.  Would be covered with berries, then one day Robins arrived and 
within a day or so...no more berries.  Kind of "here today, gone tomorrow" 
for both Robins and berries.

Dennis (north of Grants Pass)


> Hello again:
> I wrote several weeks ago, during our big freeze period in Portland,
> wondering about the sudden appearance of large numbers of robins in
> my backyard area.
>
> I didn't mention that they appeared to be frequently eating from the
> neighbor's holly tree. I didn't think anything was weird about that.
>
> But that, indeed, was what they were doing. And I'm sorry now that I
> didn't mention it at the time. It appears to have been a rather
> salient fact.
>
> Lisa
> NE Portland
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