{"id":75522,"date":"2020-11-26T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=75522"},"modified":"2025-05-26T05:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:38:55","slug":"adult-american-robin-gobbling-down-a-crabapple-thanksgiving-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/11\/26\/adult-american-robin-gobbling-down-a-crabapple-thanksgiving-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult American Robin Gobbling Down A Crabapple – Thanksgiving 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanAmerican Robin gobbling down a Crabapple \u2013 Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/4000, ISO 640, +1.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

You might wonder why I decided to use an American Robin photo on my Thanksgiving post today and I will explain how I picked this image.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is<\/em> a time to be grateful and I am grateful to American Robins because as a little girl it was nesting robins feeding their chicks that propelled me into a lifelong passion for birds. Bird photography came later in life after raising my own young.<\/p>\n

Without seeing those robins tending to their young I may not have become so passionate about birds. So even though I have hundreds (upon hundreds) of Wild Turkey images I could have shared here today I wanted to honor the robins that brought me the gift of the love of birds.<\/p>\n

This photo also shows the American Robin gobbling down a ripe crabapple that in a way looks like a cranberry. Maybe that is a stretch, maybe it’s not.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican Robin with one white tail feather \u2013 Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/5000, ISO 640, +1.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

As the year 2020 winds down I feel like this Thanksgiving is unlike any other in the history of this country that we have ever faced. It has been a year of tremendous hardship, turmoil and sacrifice. We’ve had the pandemic, political and societal unrest, and at times it has felt as if our country was being attacked from within.<\/p>\n

Here in Utah March started out shaky because of a large earthquake that had us all ready to run for safety and on edge 24\/7 while in other areas of the country the weather battered us and throughout the west fires scorched the earth. 2020 has been a year that volumes will be written about in history books and that will likely not be forgotten.<\/p>\n

When I was looking for the first American Robin photo to share in this Thanksgiving message a photo caught my eye and I saw an anomaly in the tail of another American Robin I had photographed the same day as the first robin that I hadn’t noticed before.<\/p>\n

The robin in the second photo had been dive-bombed by a starling and lifted its tail in response to the attack. How I missed seeing that the robin had one white tail feather is beyond me because I am usually very observant.<\/p>\n

I wanted to include the photo of the American Robin with one leucistic tail feather simply because it is an anomaly and I believe that the year 2020 is as well. We’ll get back on track.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American Robin photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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