[TN-Bird] kRobins

Every morning recently there has been a large number of American  
Robins passing over my farm from east to west, apparently leaving a  
roost.  They mostly pass over in small groups, intermittently, for  
quite a while.  I had been putting them down in my notes in daily  
totals of a couple of hundred or so, just as an estimate.  This  
morning (Dec. 28th 2008) I was out a bit earlier than usual, and I  
when the robins started passing over I decided I would actually count  
them this time.  So I counted.. and I counted... and I counted...  
noticing that these small groups were passing over from horizon to  
horizon and I was doubtless missing many of them.   At a tally of  
2152 Robins my brain had grown weary of the count; but the robins  
kept coming.  I finished the rest of my morning rounds, while robins  
kept passing over in small groups every few minutes, and just put  
down 2500 as a conservative estimate.  If I had the persistence to  
count the entire exodus it would probably total a couple of thousand  
more than what I tallied this morning.

Bill Pulliam,  western Lewis County, TN
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