by He was singing on my fire escape a minute ago, and I loved the sounds he was making! So did Bleecker. Ah, is it a robin? I just googled it and I think it’s a robin. I wish I could have robins flying around my apartment. Except for the mess. And the fact that they’d soon be murdered by cats. Thanks for stopping by, little guy.
Looks like a Robin to me… cute little guy.
Thank you! Yeah, he was cute.I was sorry to see him fly away.
Definitely a robin, with the slightly unfortunate Latin name Turdus migratorius. As a type of thrush it has a lovely varied song:
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/view_default.asp?sortBy=has+audio&viewType=list&curFamilyID=248
I was just thinking that it should be farther south, even in NYC, when my husband came home and said he’d seen one up here! WTF? He also saw a Cardinal at the same time. They are hardier than the Robins but they still decamp for at least January. Especially today, when the windchill makes it feel like -18F.
I hope they’re going to be okay. Climate change might be messing them up.
Yes, the American Robin! We used to have a picture of them on the back of our $2-bill here in Canada. When we still had a $2 bill…
Ha! We had $2 bills for a while too.