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on for a week or more. Now things have quieted down.
The robin chorus started at 5:40 this morning: by 6:20 it had diminished somewhat. The sun rose at 6:36. Roger Tory Peterson described the robin song as: “a clear caroling; short phrases, rising and falling, often prolonged.” I can’t improve on that though I would add “rollicking” to the adjectives. It is loud and assertive; worthy of a bird so erect, proud and confident.
The male robin is just now perched on the fence; he has a robust, chesty look to him. The female appeared in the dogwood tree just about to bloom. She went up to the nest. He escorted her there.
Robin sounds are many and varied. There are also differences between individual males in their caroling. Some scold notes sound hysterical, another call sounds like manical laughing. The books refer tp a hissing sound that I have never heard.
The robin makes himself at home throughout the United States. It’s a resident species throughout the United States except in the upper tier of the mid-western states where it
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