Robin Red-Breast

The promised snow did not arrive, and neither did any precipitation. But that did not stop the robins from swarming the front yards looking for worms yesterday.

Maryland is in the middle of the Eastern Seaboard and has relatively mild winters. Which means some of the locals winter over, and migrants from Northern, more frigid climes, will hang out here. There are robins in them thar woods all winter. But since the ground actually freezes here, they do not feed on worms or even insects during the winter, but rather turn to their other food source berries. Which is why they are seldom seen in the winter.

But on Sunday, I spotted one robin in the neighbor's back yard gathering worms, signaling that the ground has warmed up for spring. I'd better get digging.