Robins are Back!

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i think that with our move over to the older/new house that i'm just noticing them more because there are a lot of scrub trees, brambles and smaller plantings close to the house. our other house had woods bordering the yard but it was at least 200 feet away from the house. so i'm sure the birds didn't want to venture to far from their safety zone. i heard plenty of birds when i visited my chicken coop at that back corner of the yard while we lived there.

this is my new coop a few days ago when we got a foot of snow. it's roughly 25-30 feet away from the back corner of our house. you can't really see through the snow covered trees the neighbor's house about 200+ feet behind the coop. the birds have been enjoying the shelter of all those trees and in the spring/summer all the blackberries and raspberries that have been growing wild for years.

 

[897tgigvib]

I google imaged it, no the robin with the dark breast was not a townsends. It was a robin, right in with other regular robins. but it gave me a chance to google up robins. i thought they were diverse, but more than i thought. much more.

 

[vfem]

I'm trying to send them all north for you guys... I noticed a lot of canada geese stopping in our pond, and then they take off north.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

actually vfem, the geese take up residence in the mowed down fields up this direction. so they really don't fly to far south. when i go to visit my sister in Mass we see them all over the fields down there.

 

[Nyboy]

Geese are a big problem around here, they even where blamed for a airplane crash. Cardinals and gold finchs are 2 birds that visit my yard, and are always welcome. Not sure which is prettier.

 

[vfem]

I actually learned there are migratory canada geese and non-migratory. I had a conversation with someone just a couple of summers ago, and turns out that there are a couple of types of the species. I saw some in the summer out along the fields down the road and the lady at the veggie stand told me that was because they were a none migratory species and those stay where every they are all year, even in the north! I never knew there were more then one canada goose type! (I also learned that we don't call them canadian geese, which I am glad I learned too.)

 

[897tgigvib]

Are those non migrating canada gooses just as loud and chatty as their migrating relatives?