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and acute eyesight, the bird pulls the morsel from the ground and either quickly eats if or carries it back to the nest to feed hungry nestlings.
Robins must trust us. Some have abandoned trees as nest sites to buiW their mud and grass nests on window ledges, fire escapes and rafters of sheds. Should a jay or grackle, attracted to the blue eggs of a robin, indicate A taste for them, he will be denounced in loud, penetrating cries and fearlessly attacked by the owners of the nest.
When I sit outside to read or make notes for these articles, robins often search for earthworms only a few feet away. I treasure that trust, that sense of oneness with robins. The robin’s confidence makes me confident. I cherish the companionship though I know I need the robin more than he needs me.
I don’t propose elevating the American Robin to replace the Bald Eagle as our National Bird. I can’t see ^pbbin “spread eagled” and clutcmng a bunch of arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other as he is depicted on a dollar bill. Besides, robins don’t have talons; only predatory birds are so equipped.
On the other hand, I would guess that the Founding Fathers — Monroe, Jefferson and Washington — were more familiar with robins on their Virginia plantations than they were with Bald Eagles. I will happily settle for the American Robin as my national bird.
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