Looking at Robin Through A Winter's Pane
by Lydia Holly
Title
Looking at Robin Through A Winter's Pane
Artist
Lydia Holly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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This scene was captured through a glass pane in my back door during our last snow in 2014.
The American robin is about 25 cm (10 inches) long and has gray-brown upperparts, a rusty breast, and white-tipped outer tail feathers. The birds inhabit deciduous forests but are also a familiar sight in American towns and cities. Most are highly migratory, spending the winter in flocks in the southern United States, though a few winter as far north as southern Canada. The American robin feeds on earthworms, insects, and berries. The nest, built of twigs, roots, grass, and paper with a firmly molded inner layer of mud, is placed in trees or on building ledges. Four to six bluish green eggs are incubated by the female for 1214 days. The female incubates the eggs and the male obtains food for the young, who fly in 1416 days. There may be two or three broods per season. The name robin is also applied to other New World thrushes of the genus Turdus. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
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April 11th, 2014
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