Ryan said that they would come . . . the robins that is. 2010 was a mast year for hackberry trees in our yard, meaning that they produced a lot of them! A few birds had found them, but nothing in mass quantities. Until this weekend. When a huge group of robins and their familiars, starlings, showed up to eat hackberries, take shelter in our trees, and poop wierd dark orange hackberry poop all over our new ivory metal roof. Ryan thinks that the light color of our new metal roof makes for a bird poop magnet. At least it washes off in the rain :)
Maybe they can tell the weather, and knew a practical hackberry farm would be a good place to wait out a winter storm. If they're lucky the hackberries won't get iced over.
For now we just enjoy the sight of flocks of robin red breasts hanging out in our trees!
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