I been noticing a lot of robins this year. A lot of winter I see them all winter and in some bad winters. I believe they have changed there patterns here. I do have a lot of heavy cover and a lot of trees. There must be enough food in dead of winter for them to stay around.

Anyone else in the north country notice them during the winter.

YES! The things never leave and gorge themselves on the apples I planted for the grouse. Sometimes in October there will be 500-1,000 of them around the house just gorging on apples. By this time of the year, most of the apples are gone and the grouse don't get to benefit from them. BTW, Robin tastes better than Eagle or loon.

They must change migration routes. About 3 years ago we had them here by the millions during winter

They eat juniper berries ( gin ) and crap all over everything......like a horror movie...lol

Been pretty mellow the last couple winters

I've seen them all year as well.

Hate them things

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Is it better or worse than spotted owl, California condor and ivory billed woodpecker, which has been admittedly a little scarce lately?

Keith

Yep!!!

When we have good crops of cedar or juniper berries they will stick around for the winter.

That may be the case here.

Same here along the river. Thick cover, junipers and any open water and a whack of them will winter here. It’s been that way as long as I can remember, here anyway.

A lot of them stopped migrating from here 30 years ago, so we have some all winter. They seem to like thick brushy areas near water where they find various "fruits" on vines and trees.
I used to keep a log of the first robins in the spring, but that doesn't work now, lol

None around here as of yet that I have seen.

I am not sure but I think that the ones we see in the winter are different birds than the summer ones. I think our migrate south and the ones in Canada migrate to here. Just a guess as the act different around people. I think the crows do the same thing, our summer crows will land 50 feet form me when I am cleaning fish and come hopping in to get scraps but the winter ones stay distant........Just a guess

Well does make sense. I see them all winter here and even in the worst winter we have.

I have not seen nor heard a single robin this year, nor have I seen a single duck on any of the private lakes I fish

We have what I've been told are Canadian robins. They come down at least a month after our house robins have left. They leave in early early spring well before the house robins appear. There diets are far different from what I can see.

Is that uncommon?

Haven't seen any robins around here in a couple months. Grouse have cleaned almost all the apples off my flowering crab tree.