Today I was talking on the phone with my dear mother, and looked out the window at the bird feeder and was telling her about the gold finches that were feeding. The males look more olive than gold until spring and summer when they exchange their olive green feathers for gold. I looked up, and what did I see running across the grass in my direction but a big, beautiful and fat robin! The first of the season, and it is still so cold, we even had a little snow this morning, and more in the forecast.
I looked again, and saw another robin, then another, then realized that every bird, about a dozen or more of them, on the lawn was a robin. They were doing their very best to listen for those worms, but the ground is too cold and frozen yet to provide them with much to eat. Since it’s unusual to see so many at once, I can only think that they are migrating into the area.
Finally! A sign of Spring…and this year, since we’ve been having the coldest winter in 25 years, give or take a year, I can’t wait!
