We have this funny robin in our yard this year. He has the weirdest songs I have every heard from a robin - and I have been a fan of robins for more than 50 years now.
This one has a screechy sound when it comes into the yard which is really weird and then it sits in the tree every evening and sings and sings. It can imitate the chirping/chortle of a hungry eagle (which isn't really a sound we like to hear in our yard, but it is funny that the robin makes it). Then if you sing a song to him, he only has to hear it twice and then he adds it to his song and so then every time you hear him, he will sing robin songs for a while, then throw in a couple eagle chirps and then sing your song to you. And he can learn a new song from you like every day, so it is really fun.
I've had other birds do this, but not to this extent and I don't remember a robin being this way before.
The swallows came late this year, and they are not really here in numbers and haven't even begun to nest yet. I hope that means a long hot summer, but up here, we never know what that means.... it might just mean a late, cold spring and we can attest to that. brrrrr
Brian and Alicia went mushroom hunting this morning and found a foot of snow still covering the mushroom ground.
It is almost midnight on Memorial Friday which usually means miles and miles of cars from Anchorage, but a semi overturned this morning up by Cooper Landing and at 10:00 pm, they still hadn't fully opened the road, so it is unusually quiet. YAY !!! All the traffic really gets to me on Memorial Weekend. And Mya and Heathcliff have decided that the highway is now part of their territory to defend, so they bark or scream every time a big or noisy vehicle drives by. You can imagine how restful that is. Plus of course, we have had a steady stream of boats and trailers in here this past 2 weeks getting ready for fishing season, so Mya is all distressed about the customers driving in her driveway and bothering her dad out at the shop.
Looks like they got the highway open - the crowds are starting up. Usually some of us would be down at the bridge waiting for someone to look at their watch and yell, " IT'S MIDNIGHT ! ! " and then splash, splash, splash all up and down the river as the king season opens, but the river is really high and full of mud, so nobody here is going fishing at midnight - not to mention we all have the flu and / or a cold or both in some order. Thank you Brian and Justin for bringing home different illnesses for us to all catch. hehehe
So if you guys like videos, I will try to get a sound byte of the bird singing, but if videos don't work for you, I won't bother.
Love you guys - have a good weekend. Love, Charlotte
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now would really like tro hear a singingf robin. all I have everd heard rhem do is sorr of chirp ar a baby that is sort of trying ro fly. I'll bet it is a kick.
Have a great weekend. Love Dad and Carole
mmm...salmon, it's been so long.
I am interested in hearing this bird though.
That bird is hilarious! We once had a mocking bird in our front yard that had perfected the sound of our cat's meow & several times we were sure she was up in the tree somewhere.
I would like to see a vifeo! Have a Happy Holiday . Happy Birthda y coming up. The bird sounds like lots of fun.Love mother
We had mockingbirds for several years who had some songs but whose main specialty was imitating the crows and the blue jays. Now since the crows and bluejays were perfectly capable of making their own noise, it was sort of annoying. Then one year we had a mockingbird with a huge repetore, but he died in the middle of the summer somehow. This year we have some that imitate the house finches, which mostly confuses the house finches, so they start singing back.
I dont' know how you managed to send your nasty cold/flue through the Internet to me, but thanks a lot. Love, Sandra
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