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Holy Robins!

April 22, 2008 by Jason Savage Leave a Comment

American Robin

We we’re getting ready to go to the grocery store the other night and my wife told me to come take a look out back. I was surprised to see what seemed like hundreds of robins all staring at me from every tree in our backyard…

Now we occasionally will see a Robin now and again, but we’ve never been visited by a flock this huge. Coupled with the very cold and strange weather that night and it was a little surreal feeling.

Not wanting to pass up any excuse to pull out my camera, I decided to play around out back with my 300mm and see if I could capture any of our visitors.

I stood there for quite a while watching them feed on our neighbor’s Russian Olive tree and having never really payed much attention to the Robins before as they are such a common bird, I was amused by their behavior and lack of shyness when traveling in large flocks.

Apparently in large flocks they are less vulnerable to predators as they usually have a lookout and are able to watch each others reactions to indicate a threat.

Anyhow it was fun to watch and hopefully the visit by these little guys may be an indicator that winter is finally on it’s way out…

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Based in Montana, Jason works as a freelance and commercial photographer, specializing in travel and outdoor photography.

His work has been featured in National Geographic Traveler, Time, Outside, Audubon, Outdoor Photographer,The Nature Conservancy and many others.
His images have also been featured in numerous advertising campaigns, books, and calendars around the world.

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