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Posted: 2/15/2020 5:44:06 PM EDT

Sure, we've read all the stuff aboot China birds, but there's some strange goin-ons round these here parts.

Example: past week there have been 50-100 robins clustered around a shrubbery in my yard. It's a tall and fine shrubbery, but in years yore never attracted such avian attention..

So I ask the brilliant minds of GD: Is something up?

Moderately serious replies only.

Can make a pole but stumped on choices.

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:46:25 PM EDT

[#1]

Avian flu coming.......

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:46:55 PM EDT

[#2]

Robins are migratory, so maybe just passing thru? Are there any berries or seed pods on the shrubbery that they may be using as a food source?

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:51:18 PM EDT

[#3]

We've had an unusually high number of Robins here as well. They don't generally show up until later in March.

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:52:47 PM EDT

[#4]

Bird activity is one of the few things that appears normal around here??

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:53:59 PM EDT

[#5]

Around here the weather is goofy. 50-60 one day and below freezing and snowing the next. Birds don’t know what to do. We still have robins but they should all be south by this time of year. Keep your feeder full, the poor bastards need a break - though I’m not sure robins are feeder feeders, don’t they like worms and bugs? Maybe in a pinch they’ll eat seeds.

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:55:29 PM EDT

[#6]

Haven't seen a Robin yet this year. We don't get many.
Otherwise the birds are doing their birdy thing.
We seem to have had a better sampling of non migratory birds this year for some reason, but winter was mild and it isn't unheard of.

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:56:40 PM EDT

[#7]

Jesus, you guys......

Yes, the global warming is causing the flat earth to offgas high levels of abandoned frackint compounds which interferes with the birds. Shortly the concentrations of man made poisons being released will reach critical mass and start affecting humans.

Better buy gas masks and freeze dried food STAT

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:58:53 PM EDT

[#8]

Crows every f***ing where. They are pissing me off!

Posted: 2/15/2020 5:59:10 PM EDT

[#9]

There was a big fat male cardinal cruising for chicks on my front porch the other day.

This kind.

Not this kind.

I said ‘chicks’.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:00:25 PM EDT

[#10]

Our pheasants are doing great. I can see three of them eating corn now.
Did not know Pennsylvania had shrubbery. We have bushes.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:01:17 PM EDT

[#11]

The birds have been active earlier this year than most. I started seeing robins in mid January, perhaps even a bit earlier. Probably due to the fact this has been a very mild winter in these parts.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:01:37 PM EDT

[#12]

They die when I shoot them. Seems normal.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:01:41 PM EDT

[#13]

Yes, dozens or more Robins flying back & forth over a busy street low & fast.

One car was hit and I worried about the same.

Never saw that before .

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:01:53 PM EDT

[#14]

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Haven't seen a Robin yet this year. We don't get many.
Otherwise the birds are doing their birdy thing.
We seem to have had a better sampling of non migratory birds this year for some reason, but winter was mild and it isn't unheard of.

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I can box up as many as you want and ship them to you.
We have tons.

As far as weird bird stuff, we have had a murder of crows (probably ~50) show up a couple times a day in a tree overlooking our yard.

I have seen them fly over many times but it wasn't until recently that they started stopping to hang out.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:02:33 PM EDT

[#15]

They’re acting like birds in my AO.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:02:50 PM EDT

[#16]

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:02:55 PM EDT

[#17]

Does said shrubbery grow hearing?

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:04:27 PM EDT

[#18]

The pigeon's in this area keep exploding when they have sex. At least the ones that I have sex with do. :.shrugs::

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:04:41 PM EDT

[#19]

I have no doubt we have ornithologists on here that will be along momentarily to explain that something is unusual

No need to be concerned until you see a boom in buzzards and crows. Buzzards to clean up the bodies after the crows take your souls.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:05:54 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/15/2020 6:09:27 PM EDT

[#21]

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I can box up as many as you want and ship them to you.
We have tons.

As far as weird bird stuff, we have had a murder of crows (probably ~50) show up a couple times a day in a tree overlooking our yard.

I have seen them fly over many times but it wasn't until recently that they started stopping to hang out.

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Crows are serious business.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:10:38 PM EDT

[#22]

Timmy fell down a well or earthquake coming soon.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:11:38 PM EDT

[#23]

Are you sure they are Robins? Seems early for them...

Huginn and/or Muninn keeps stopping by my place...

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Posted: 2/15/2020 6:16:08 PM EDT

[#24]

Yes. A few weeks ago I saw something move on the ground and looked closer and saw it was a robin.

We don't have robins here in the winter. It was -26f day before yesterday. Never seen one before this time of year.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:16:45 PM EDT

[#25]

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I can box up as many as you want and ship them to you.
We have tons.

As far as weird bird stuff, we have had a murder of crows (probably ~50) show up a couple times a day in a tree overlooking our yard.

I have seen them fly over many times but it wasn't until recently that they started stopping to hang out.

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Remember crows and raptors were going extinct a few years back because of... something? Campo Bacter? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:17:09 PM EDT

[#26]

yeah, they don't understand that 4am is not the time to begin chirping

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:17:34 PM EDT

[#27]

Nothing unusual here this winter. Same birds at our feeders that we always have. All the Ohio woodpeckers except pileated woodpeckers, northern flickers, goldfinches, blue jays, rufous sided towhees, cardinals, carolina wrens, and various sparrow species. While deer hunting I'll see pileated woodpeckers and flocks moving through of many smaller species of birds including bluebirds. See a fair number of robins too.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:18:22 PM EDT

[#28]

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Posted: 2/15/2020 6:18:24 PM EDT

[#29]

The Crows Have Eyes 3: The Crowening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tbCP7H_kZ0

From Schitt's Creek S5E1: Moira Rose stars in "The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crowening"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2yq-LOF4X0

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:18:44 PM EDT

[#30]

Yes.

Clicked on this thread and a bunch of crows showed up looking at me funny.

Has there been a superhero that could control crows? Could The Crow? It'd be weird if a superhero called The Crow couldn't communicate with crows.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:21:57 PM EDT

[#31]

No. In fact, a pair of black vultures that nest near my shop have returned today. They will mate and raise their young and then disappear in the late fall. I'm glad to see them back. I almost had a picture but they flew away when I walked out the door.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:22:55 PM EDT

[#32]

I’ve always gotten the occasional robin flock around her in the winter. Not something you can miss because robins are usually solitary.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:23:44 PM EDT

[#33]

JFC spring is coming

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:24:03 PM EDT

[#34]

Migratory birds typically migrate in large groups.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:25:19 PM EDT

[#35]

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Crows every f***ing where. They are pissing me off!

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This thousands never seen very many around before but now there are massive flocks of them all over.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:25:25 PM EDT

[#36]

You mean like this?

[Youtube]JOGC3sNJJxs[/Youtube]

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:27:14 PM EDT

[#37]

The Canada Geese are shitting everywhere.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:27:55 PM EDT

[#38]

Birds aren't real.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:31:30 PM EDT

[#39]

Assroid commin

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:32:34 PM EDT

[#40]

Nothing unusual, except more seem to be wearing surgical masks.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:36:45 PM EDT

[#41]

It's a little early for robins and other birds to show up in this area. However two nights ago a woodpecker decided it was time to announce himself on the tree next to my bedroom window.

Two years ago I had my property logged but I left that one tree with all the holes in it. last year no woodpeckers, if this is their return, it's going to be a noisy spring.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:38:43 PM EDT

[#42]

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Birds aren't real.

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Calling you out as a lyre. How else did coconuts reach Arthurian England?

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:38:57 PM EDT

[#43]

We had a few hundred robins in our yard last week.

Seems early.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:41:47 PM EDT

[#44]

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http://www.mishkanministries.org/images/lyre.jpg
Calling you out as a lyre. How else did coconuts reach Arthurian England?

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Bring me a small lyre Trim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnhlQao5f4U

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:42:50 PM EDT

[#45]

I haven't had hardly any birds at the feeder this year and typically by now I have those pathetic kill deer out squawking at me every time I step outside - but so far nothing - it is early but I've had unusually low number of birds in the area.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:44:17 PM EDT

[#46]

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Our pheasants are doing great. I can see three of them eating corn now.
Did not know Pennsylvania had shrubbery. We have bushes.

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Corn bushes.

Everything in Iowa is corn.

Corn grass, corn trees, corn hedges...

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:47:00 PM EDT

[#47]

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Robins are migratory, so maybe just passing thru? Are there any berries or seed pods on the shrubbery that they may be using as a food source?

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This.^^ Robins migrate in large flocks. They pass through my AO like that.

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:47:32 PM EDT

[#48]

The wife went to the mailbox the other day and look down beside the neighbor's mailbox. There was a giant barn owl I had just killed a squirrel and had it in his talons and flew away when she got to close.

It was pretty Majestic. I guess you could call that someone odd to see an owl out during the day

Posted: 2/15/2020 6:47:55 PM EDT

[#49]

They haven't crapped on my car in weeks. Something is up for sure.

Posted: 2/15/2020 7:23:23 PM EDT

[#50]

There's a word for it, just escapes my mind right now, but birds herd together during winter.

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