"The times they are a changing." I think climate change with accompanying lack of snow (compared to 50 years ago) has made winter survival in the NE easier for robins and they have responded with a winter range shift to the north. If the snow was continuously deep and ground unavailable to scratch very likely most of the robins would south of the perpetual snow line.  

On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Susan Green wrote:

> Anybody know why there are so many robins around? We have 20- 30 every day. I seem to remember having to search for one around town meeting day in March. The numbers this year are astonishing. What's up?
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