Date: 02/03/2003

Number: 1

Many, many robins over-wintered here in the Quemado Valley north of Eagle Pass, TX, on the Rio Grande this year. If one were to go out just couting robins, then there would be a dozen per mile--even out in the "monte," which is what we call the wild chaparral country and ranch land that stretches around us in an area the size of the state of Illinois. When we get down into the river bottoms along the Rio Grande or into the pecan orchards in rich agricultural lands, there are even more!

I cannot answer the question where do robins spend the winter because this is the first year in my memory that we have had robins all winter. In past years, they were seen in fall and spring. Why did they decide not to move further south?

We didn't have much of a winter hereabouts; a couple of times it got down to 29F and maybe once briefly to 24F, but those frosty nights have been fewer than 10 in number.

Yesterday, I saw an unidentified bird carrying a long streamer of dry grass. S/he could ha

Eagle Pass, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -100.5

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