On Jan 17, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Cotty wrote: > On 17/1/07, Bob Shell, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I've never seen a "robin" here in Virginia in the winter. Been bird >> watching for more than 40 years. >> >> My question would be what would they eat in the winter? > > Here in the UK we have pretty mild winters generally speaking, with > only > infrequent forays down to about -8C or so. I see robins throughout the > year. The same ones.
We went through this once before. What is incorrectly called a robin in North America is not related to the real robin of UK and Europe. Our "robins" are correctly called Migratory Thrush. Getting people to use the correct name has been just about impossible. Regardless of what they're called, there ain't any of them here in the VA mountains in the winter. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
