Feb232009
Backyard Wonders - Part 4 - New Species of Snowbirds
Filed under Animals, General, Scenic Photographs, backyard Wonders by bob hammerstrom at 2:51 pm
Note: This is the fourth posting in an ongoing series of photographs I will be publishing throughout 2009. All of the “Backyard Wonders” photographs in this series will be taken in my own back yard. My challenge is to see how many different kinds of landscape and wildlife photos I can come up with by the end of the year. Enjoy!
With a winter like we’ve had this year, who in the world would want to move to New Hampshire? Snowbirds from the northern states head south to Arizona and Florida to get away from the cold. I’m talking about birds and humans here. So, is it true that robins fly south for the winter? Are you sure?
Every year I see the Canada geese heading to warmer climates in the fall, and back up north in the spring. Other birds migrate in huge flocks flying from tree to tree in our woods, screeching the whole time. But what made this robin decide to hunker down for the winter in my backyard?
It must have been a female robin cause she’s looking a bit on the pregnant side. Perhaps he’s a true New Hampshirite, born and bred in the White’s and just can’t see fit to packin’ up the family to venture south during the whiter calendar months.
I spotted the robin in our crabapple tree a month ago, and it frequents the tree throughout the day, plucking soft rotten crabapples off the branches, kind of like a kid in a candy store. The bird then hops down to a snowbank, or flies under an evergreen to pick apart it’s lunch. Although the deer have eaten the fruit off this tree in the past, this is the first bird that’s taken up a daily roost in the tree.
-Bob Hammerstrom
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