This is the real sign of spring! I looked out my windows through rain streaked glass and saw a huge wave of robins filling the trees on Rocky Neck Ave and Wonson Street. I’ve never in my life seen so many robins at one time. These aren’t winter overs – they are here to tell us that spring is right around the corner! Either that or it is a mass robin suicide pact. I vote for the spring option.
E.J. Lefavour
Good Morning Gloucester 
They arrive every year at this time EJ, in search of food–in Gloucester we have both winter residents and migrants–Gloucester is the migrant’s Bermuda. They eat berries and fish fry. Here’s a post I wrote a while back with more info. I just love to see the migrating Robins–so excited they are here!!!
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/round-robin-redbreast-snowy-day-video/
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If this is Bermuda to them, where the heck are they migrating from – the North Pole?! I knew they ate berries and especially like worms, but I never knew they ate fish fry. Gloucester House, Causeway, Lobsta Land, Halibut Point be on the lookout for hordes of hungry robins looking for the best fish fry in town.
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EJ there were a few in my backyard yesterday! I agree when the robins are spotted in the neighborhood spring is here! Doesn’t mother nature know they are flying around/…LOL!
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When I first saw the big flock of them this morning it was raining out and they were flitting and hopping around and doing their little robin chirp to each other. Later I looked out and saw them down by Bickford Way all huddled up in a tree being covered by snow. They didn’t look very happy about it.
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Spring option sounds wayyyy better!
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Yes, I bet you want it to be spring when you get back from basking in the sun with Rabbit and doing all your physical training and stuff.
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I saw them as well today and could hear them being happy…
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They were in my backyard on Grapevine Road this morning. They were all over all the tress with berries, eating their hearts out! They seemed to be having a good time.
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They also came to visit us today at Montgomery Cove on the Annisquam to forage as well as announce that soon it will be Mud Season.
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Maybe a result of the storm with water or the few hearty ones that stayed behind? I read where the Robins Robins often, arriving just before or along with rainy weather. This means they arrive right when earthworms must emerge from their tunnels or drown.
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