Date: 02/18/2021

Number: 200

The entire month of February 2021, flocks far larger than usual have been seen in neighborhoods and green belts throughout North Texas. Total estimate I’ve personally seen = 2000. Plano had a week long sub- reezing event 2/14/21 to 2/21/21. During that week, robins mobbed my two 30’ Savannah holly trees and chowed down on the berries. No other birds, aside from cedar waxwings (when no other berries are available), will eat theses berries. I’ve assumed it’s because they seem to have a thick waxy coating. This coating will cause suds when I wash them off the patio and when they soak in the bird bath. Robins will not eat the berries off the ground, even though they often struggle to snag them from the wobbly terminal twigs. I filled a shallow plater with the berries, placed it on the fence top, right in their flight path, and they didn’t touch the berries. One robin landed next to the platter but had no interest in the berries. During one of these unusually cold days, the first when the sun shone, the robins would feed on the trees and hop to the south-facing warm roof to warm up.

Plano, TX

Latitude: 33 Longitude: -96.8

Observed by: Barbara
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