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here in Virginia. Summer is short there, but the days are almost endless so more young can be fed during the long hours of daylight. Here the robin lays, at the most, five eggs. Virginia robins have two, sometimes, three broods a season; there is time for that with our prolonged summer.
Robins were frequently shot for food in the 19th Century. Audubon wrote in 1841: “In all the Southern States, their presence is productive to a sort of jubilee among gunners, and the havoc made among them is wonderful. Every gunner brings them home by (the) bagful, and the markets are supplied with them at a very cheap rate. They are fat and juicy, and afford excellent eating.” Imagine that!
A number of years ago, I picked up a book at a secondhand book store entitled: Birds Of Washington And Vicinity. Published in 1902, it states: “In winter of 1896-97, 2,600 Robins were offered for
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