Date: 02/06/2006
Number: 1
about 9:30 A.M.
partly sunny
temp. about 32ยบ F
about an inch of snow on the ground
20-25 robins were feasting on the shriveling berries of a "Purple Beauty Berry Bush."
They seemed to have been "taking turns." There would be about 8 robins in the bush, while 4 or 5 waited in a nearby holly, and another 10 or 12 watched from a Bradford Pear tree.
Robins come every Feb. for the berries, but do not stay. Some years, the same or a different group of robins will show up a few days later -- if there are plenty of berries, as there are this year.
Other years there have been several starlings traveling with the robins, but not this year.
Granville, OH
Latitude: 40.1 Longitude: -82.5
Observed by: Don
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