Today's Bird- the American Robin
The Most Abundant Landbird in North America (with 370 Million Individuals)
~~🐦🐦⬛🪶 "Wake up, wake up you sleepy head/ Get up, get up, get out of bed/ Cheer up, cheer up, the sun is red / Live, love, laugh and be happy!" — Dean Martin
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Morning lawn patrol!
hopping and hunting for worms
flycatcher family
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A bath dispute! ☝️
Considered a symbol of spring, a well-known example is a poem by Emily Dickinson titled "I Dreaded That First Robin So".
Among other 19th-century poems about the first robin of spring is "The First Robin" by William Henry Drummond, which, according to the author's wife, is based on a Quebec superstition that whoever sees the first robin of spring will have good luck.
In Native American mythology, there is a story about how the robin got its red breast by fanning the dying flames of a campfire to save a Native American man and a boy. Similar legends surround the European robin. The Tlingit people of northwestern North America believed the robin to be a cultural hero created by Raven to please the people with its song.
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Comments (2)
Oh, my favorite Spring bird!! I watch the yards so closely in early Spring for them to appear, and get so excited when I see one!
The birds are beautiful. Reminds me of my parents home in Nigeria. One particular bird woke me up with the same song every morning for years. You are blessed to live so close to these beauties 🙏🏾💞