Date: 02/09/2015

Number: 1

I am seeing HUGE waves of robins from Merritt Island to Flagler Beach including about 200 in trees around my house this AM. They are in large numbers daily for several weeks now. I'm including a photo from last week at end of day as they were coming in to roost in the forest near my home.

As I listen to about 200 robins in the trees around my house hitting the cherry laurels for fruit, I'll give you my personal guess. At Christmas Bird Count there were very few robins reported. It was in deed about the time of the first arctic polar effect in January that they finally made their presence known. And since then, they are being seen by everyone from Central Florida north in large numbers. I do not know how many are being seen further south. I have only been as far as Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge where I was seeing them in the thousands, especially early AM and late afternoon when they are coming to and from roosts, mostly in the pine forests. I'll send you a clip from my iPhone. They are chirping and whinnying a lot. But mixed in I hear a bit of "short rendition" singing as well. We haven't had much rain of late so they don't appear to be on the ground that much. Berries are abundant, especially Brazilian Pepper fruit which is a huge favorite of robins and an invasive exotic to Florida.

Ormond Beach, FL

Latitude: 29.3 Longitude: -81.1

Observed by: Meret
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