It’s mid-January and not too cold inSouth Georgia. We expect red-breasted robins to appear (in February or March) to signal the advent of spring. I glanced out the window of my office and saw thirty of the beauties on my lawn. My first thought was, “Is spring really here?”
Then I thought of the Canadian geese who came here and stayed. Most any day, we can see 30 or 40 geese at the lake or flying a few thousand feet over to the fairgrounds to forage on the tender-green grass. I’m going to postulate that the birds had encountered warm weather and stopped off here by mistake. Could these robins be permanent residents who just visited my yard for the day?
I asked my knowledgeable bird-watching friend about them “Were they going north or south,” he replied. This meant he didn’t know.
Heck, we haven’t asked the groundhog yet if winter is over!
tomvancel
