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During the extended period of warm weather in January, a robin appeared in our scraggly privet shrub to eat the tiny berries. He was welcome and I viewed the bird not as a sign of false spring, but as one who knows a good thing when he sees it. There is a good crop of privet berries this year. Earlier, a mockingbird turned up. I was not happy with that and said so to Lee Trott:
“I hope that mockingbird doesn’t stay around long enough to decide that privet and all its berries belong to him.” I said. “He won’t allow another bird near the bush or the bird feeder.”
Fortunately the mockingbird didn’t declare the area his and, in consequence, offlimits to all other birds whether they wanted privet berries or not. Mockingbirds are aggressively territorial birds.
For a time, the robin was very still; abruptly he made a deliberate movement and reached out to pluck on of the blue-black berries from the clusters at the end of twigs. That was followed by another period of stillness. In this way the bird fed for fully 15 minutes. Why the pauses? And why only one small fruit at a time? I had seen a Hermit Thrush feed in exactly the
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