[TN-Bird] Re: Back SKY bird count???

In a message dated 2/14/2009 8:27:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tnwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Other times everywhere I
looked, there were Robins.  Has anyone else noticed this?

It seems to happen every year.  I first noticed it  in Florida when on 
birding trips with the Winter Park chapter of the Florida Audubon Society 
during the 
late 1940's.  Another thing we noticed about robins is that they like to feed 
on freshly burned farm lands which used to be common winter "happenings" in 
our area.  Daddy used to burn off our watermelon field, and the next day, 
robins appeared on that five acres by the THOUSANDS!  I often see them from my 
deck 
in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, flying high and seemingly 
forever.  Other birds such as gulls and mixed flocks of grackles/blackbirds do 
this 
mass migration only they usually fly lower than the robins.  One day, I saw 
gulls over the Cumberland flying past the Riverbend Prison library in West 
Nashville during my full eight hour workday there when I was their librarian.  
Also saw literally millions of gulls flying south over the Indian River in 
Florida, between Melbourne/Indialantic & Wabasso for two solid rainy days in 
1974.  
Returning from Shelbyville, TN, one November day, I saw a huge string of 
blackbirds & grackles flying south along 41A just at the S'ville city limits to 
its 
intersection with 31A at College Grove, a distance of about 18 miles.  That 
was one LONG and WIDE string of birds.
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN
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