A9II w/ Tamron 150-500 @ 500mm + crop
Beautiful picture of an American Robin! During the spring we would get flocks of 20+ Robins on our lawn, hunting for worms, but I haven't seen them since summer started.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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Thanks! I live in Michigan and the Americam Robin is our state bird. They largely disappear over winter, but are here spring through fall in force. We have multiple nests in our yard. They're not very shy, and kinda big, so they're not that hard to fill the frame with.
They fly south for the winter, and north for the summer. We're both in the Northern part of the hemisphere where they fly to in the summer. I think they disappeared from our lawn because it's hot and dry now, so the worms probably go much deeper into the soil and aren't accessible to the robins.
There aren't as many around as there were in early spring, but it's surprising to hear that you have so few. We have a decent number who seem to make this area their summer home. There are a number of 'natural' yards in our subdivision, but we're one of the few (the only?) activity planting clover. We have tons of insects in our yard, it's kind of nice actually. Maybe we're outliers. We recently visited my in-laws, whose lot backs up to a protected estuary. It was very surreal how few bugs were around.
I hear them in the trees, I just don't see them on the lawn any more. They're probably feeding in the forest now that the lawns are all dead. I'm in the PNW and we don't water our lawns during the summertime. Everyone's lawn dies and dries out, and then comes back in the fall when it starts raining again.