Why the morning cacophony?
Well, this songster is merely announcing to all other robins in the neighborhood that your yard is his territory. Both he and Mama robin need your yard in order to bring up a bunch of strong baby robins each spring and summer. Want to delay that wake-up revelry? Try making your yard and home as dark as possible. It may not be good for security, but it may keep you securely in that warm bed a little while longer in the morning. In the Yakima Valley, you can see them anytime and everywhere. OK, that’s not strictly true. Robins are familiar yard birds, but look out into your backyard right now. Do you see any robins? Probably not. By the end of the month, though, you will. From October through January, most robins either migrate south or form large, loose flocks and head to orchards, vineyards or Russian olive groves–wherever berries of fruit abound. Robins are harbingers of spring. As warm air invades the Yakima area from the south, with the snow barely melted from our yards, robins arr
