This is the first American Robin that I have photographed in local crabapple trees all winter long. Usually, by March, the crabapples are eaten and long gone.
American Robin on a sunny March morning – Nikon D500, f8, 1/640, ISO 500, +1.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
Winter has been extremely mild in the Salt Lake Valley this year. Typically I look for the robins, waxwings, and finches in the crabapple trees in February. That is when they eat the fruit to get through the coldest part of the winter.
The ripened crabapples are still hanging on the trees. The birds haven’t needed them to get through the winter this year.
This American Robin wasn’t eating the crabapples when I took this photo. I simply caught the robin taking a short break before it flew off to the grassy field to the east. I saw earthworms crawling across the sidewalk in late February, which was pretty weird.
It has been a very strange winter.
Life is good.
Mia
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Extraordinary pic. What a beautiful bird. The color is rich and deep; the detail is subtle…but it’s there. Thanks Mia.
Lovely robin photo. Our fruit baring trees were stripped in December and January by robins, finches a few wax wings and loads of starlings.
Lovely photo, with our mild winter, flocks of northern Robins only move south in early February and cleaned out the berries on my Mountain Ash tree so now the early spring Robins are back there are none left.
What a gorgeous photo!!! Even after worms have shown up, I have found American Robins still eating crabapples & high-bush cranberries. I figured their taste was changing.
Too bad he wasn’t a Rockin’ Robin! 😁