Robins have been found on CBCs for a long time, including the first year in 1905. https://moumn.org/CBC/birds.php?bid=65130
If you look at the graph over time, there is a general trend towards a higher counts for the robin, both in terms of the number of counts reporting robins and the number of robins reported per participant, but there is a fair bit of variation. https://moumn.org/CBC/birds_graph.php?bid=65130 Gregg Severson Minneapolis On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:45 PM Mary M White / Charles R Neil < [email protected]> wrote: > But isn't it true that large numbers of over-wintering robins in the Twin > Cities is a relatively new phenomenon? I am now 67 and grew-up in St. Paul, > and it seems to me that very few robins overwintered when I was a boy. > There were likely many fewer Twin Cities Christmas counts in the 1950s and > 60s, but my guess is that a review of those counts would show that > over-wintering robins were rare at that time. > Chuck Neil, Embarrass > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM Manley Olson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Robins regularly overwinter, sometimes in large numbers. Counts in the > > hundreds have been recorded on area Christmas counts. As long as the > > crab apples hold out you will see them in your yard. I have seen a few > > this past week. > > Manley Olson Minneapolis > > > > On 12/5/2018 11:53 AM, Sharon Fischtrom wrote: > > > I’m curious - I have a flock of robins hanging out in my crab apple > tree > > - shouldn’t they get the heck out of here? Like last month? > > > > > > Sharon Fischtrom > > > St. Paul Highland Park > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > >> On Dec 5, 2018, at 11:27 AM, Bruce Baer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> > > >> The Northern Raven was seen at the Bass Ponds at 9:30 this morning > > sitting in the trees along Long Meadow Lake. Then flying across to the > > north side. A look at the bird feeders at the refuge HQ might find it. > > Still large numbers of Hooded Mergansers present with Lesser Scaup, > > Ring-neck Duck, two swans, a hybrid Mallard, kingfisher. > > >> > > >> Bruce Baer > > >> > > >> Bloomington > > >> > > >> ---- > > >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > ---- > > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > > > > ---- > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
