** Spring is Springin.**

[LBrown59]

Saw the first Robin of the year yesterday 2-14-10.

 

[NSBound]

It's snowing here today. And tomorrow. And the day after that.

 

[dave1949]

Saw the first Robin of the year yesterday 2-14-10.

They were probably refugees from the Carolinas Sure sign that Spring is near. Hope you are feeling well LB.
Dave.

 

[Tdog]

Robins must mean different things in different parts of the country - - Robins here usually appear just before a cold front invades. The ground crawls with them at times, almost like an ant bed disturbed.

Jack

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

We are only about 50 miles north of Galveston, Texas, the ocean! It's supposed to get 28 tonight. I swear we had the hottest summer almost 2 months of 100 or over and now the coldest winter. We usually don't have prolonged cold in the winter and I don't like it. Told hubby lets go south for the winter.

We grew up in Indiana and were there till our 30's so we know snow, ice, and cold. Don't think I want to go back to that either, but this is to durn cold!

 

[MoKelly]

St. Louis Cardinals pitchers an dcatchers report tomorrow. Spring is here for me!

 

[jinman]

Don't Robins winter over in swamps and cedar bogs in the south? It seems I read that some place.

We are certainly having a cold snap with our recent snow here in Texas. It's colder here than in Vancouver at the Olympics.

With all the snow melting in the last few days, we also are having a mud season that we don't normally have. My neighbor got his tractor stuck in the woods and I went to pull him out with mine. As I was driving along a path, I started to sink also. I tried to go in reverse, but there was a tree behind me and the mud would not allow me to turn. I just left my tractor there and told him I'd come back in a few days to get it when it dried up a bit.

Yesterday, he called and told me he had my tractor parked in his driveway. I asked how he got it out. He said that yesterday morning it was cold enough that the ground froze and he just drove the tractor out.

 

[LBrown59]

*They were probably refugees from the Carolinas .
**Hope you are feeling well LB.
Dave.

*lol
**Feeling and doing good .
Thanks for asking.

Robins must mean different things in different parts of the country - -
*Robins here usually appear just before a cold front invades. The ground crawls with them at times, almost like an ant bed disturbed.
Jack

* How do you tell the native ones from the those that flew in from up north?

Don't Robins winter over in swamps and cedar bogs in the south? It seems I read that some place..

Here they fly south for the winter and return in the early spring .

 

[dave1949]

Don't Robins winter over in swamps and cedar bogs in the south? It seems I read that some place.

I just left my tractor there and told him I'd come back in a few days to get it when it dried up a bit.

Yesterday, he called and told me he had my tractor parked in his driveway. I asked how he got it out. He said that yesterday morning it was cold enough that the ground froze and he just drove the tractor out.

Don't know where they go in winter when they leave here. They are one of the earliest returning migrating birds here, usually still snow on the ground when they show up. We generally have 3 or 4 nesting pairs around, not flocks. They leave early in fall too, shortly after the service berries are dead ripe - which they will gorge themselves on.

See - it's not a bad thing to have your ground freeze If you have any serious ground freezing, don't snap an axle. Do you think it will thin out some of the fire ants?
Dave.

 

[MMagis]

There are robins in Ohio all year long. Most people just aren't looking for them, but they're out there.