It Must Be Spring
I grew up in Connecticut. The state bird is the robin. Seeing the first robin is a sign that spring is here. That usually didn’t happen until April. My standard April fools joke was “Hey, there’s a robin!”
Now in Northwest Florida the robins pass through on their way South in November and come through again in January. Today they showed up en masse. I was out in the shed and I heard it start to rain. I opened the door to look outside because it sounded strange out there. What I saw was straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. Evidently the rain was perfect to bring out the insects and worms in the grass. Robins were flying everywhere and there was a blanket of them on every grass section in the schoolyard behind the house.
I was finished for the day in the shed so I came inside. I got a call from brother Lou and sat out in the sunroom and talked to him. As I talked I saw the robins taking over the back yard. Brie also noticed and was going crazy with all the activity just out of reach through the windows. The poor cat didn’t know what to do. It would jump up on the chair and do that creaky meow cats do when they see birds. Then it would jump down an look out the glass doors at all the birds flying over the house and swish its tail and crouch and jump back up on the chair.
I’ve always liked robins, They don’t stay in this area for a long time so I always enjoy it when they invade the backyard and fill up every inch of lawn area with their feathery little bodies.
I grew up in Connecticut. The state bird is the robin. Seeing the first robin is a sign that spring is here. That usually didn’t happen until April. My standard April fools joke was “Hey, there’s a robin!”
Now in Northwest Florida the robins pass through on their way South in November and come through again in January. Today they showed up en masse. I was out in the shed and I heard it start to rain. I opened the door to look outside because it sounded strange out there. What I saw was straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. Evidently the rain was perfect to bring out the insects and worms in the grass. Robins were flying everywhere and there was a blanket of them on every grass section in the schoolyard behind the house.
I was finished for the day in the shed so I came inside. I got a call from brother Lou and sat out in the sunroom and talked to him. As I talked I saw the robins taking over the back yard. Brie also noticed and was going crazy with all the activity just out of reach through the windows. The poor cat didn’t know what to do. It would jump up on the chair and do that creaky meow cats do when they see birds. Then it would jump down an look out the glass doors at all the birds flying over the house and swish its tail and crouch and jump back up on the chair.
I’ve always liked robins, They don’t stay in this area for a long time so I always enjoy it when they invade the backyard and fill up every inch of lawn area with their feathery little bodies.
