We do like those berries. And we’re also partial to ham biscuits and steak frites.

Cheers from the Robins of the world

I do see the robins each year about this time in my backyard overlooking a Herring Run ravine in Lauraville. This past week, though, there have been 10-20 of them feasting on the neighbor’s two huge holly trees and flying higher up to a large maple in our backyard where they hung out with a red bellied woodpcker. I wish I was a nature photog so I could capture the sight of a dozen robins knocking off the snow from the holly trees and gorging on the berries.

I live in Spring Hill, Florida. We had sleet (at least I think that’s what it’s called) this morning & it was very cold. I ran an errand and stopped dead in my tracks when I got out of my car, there were hundreds of robins flying all around me. I was told the group of them go from tree to tree until they’ve eaten all of the holly berries & that it happens typically once a year. Six hours later, at home, I was sitting outside & it sounded like an aviary in my back yard. When I got up and walked closer to the rear of my property (which is tree covered) I saw more robins swarming all over the holly berry trees. They were having a blast. Who cares about those beautiful red berries, seeing what I saw today was much more worth it than worrying about fruit that I can’t eat.