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 **************Need a job? Find an employment agency near you. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000003) =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________