Date: 01/23/2003

Number: 1

The Texas-birding List has been alive with reports of American Robins from southeast Texas thru central and northcentral Texas the past few weeks. Hundreds, thousands, millions of Robins have been mentioned in some of the eye-witness accounts the past few days. Someone reported the most in two decades. Someone likened it to what stories they had heard about the "rivers" of Passenger Pigeons a hundred years ago. About two miles from school early this morning we met, not a river, but a steady stream of American Robins moving from south to north-northeast. When we got to school we found Robins across the playground. There has been a good berry crop this winter and some of the robins are being reported as being a bit "tipsy", possibly from fermented berries.

Victoria, TX

Latitude: 28.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Harlen E.
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