American Robins Winter Migration - Real Florida Snowbirds

Video: American Robins Winter Migration - Real Florida Snowbirds

Large flock of hungry Robins arrive in Florida for Winter and eat Brazilian Pepper Berries as fast as they can. These robin flocks look for ripe fruit and berries and when its exhausted move on - they usually return north in March or April although a few sometimes linger into summer. A lone Cedar Waxwing is mixed in with the flock!

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Video: American Robins Winter Migration - Real Florida Snowbirds

Mother Robin Weaning Fledgling - Tough Love

Video: Mother Robin Weaning Fledgling  - Tough Love

American Robin Weaning Fledgling  - Tough Love. The fledgling Robin is now as big as its mother who has introduced it to the joys of suet. But now the fledgling is still following mom around and eating suet like a champ. The expression in the eyes of the mother Robin says it all - its time to be on your own. This video captures the moments when the Mother Robin chases off the fledgling and lets it know its on its own. The suet feeder is not big enough for both of us!

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Video: Mother Robin Weaning Fledgling  - Tough Love

Robin Hovers - Like A Hummingbird

Video: American Robin Hovers - Like A Hummingbird

An American Robin hovers like a hummingbird? OK - maybe not "hummingbird-like", but this rather rotund Robin has developed a taste for suet and is determined to defy gravity to get it. First trying to hover its not-so-aerodynamic bird frame at great expense of energy and then gradually learning it is to better imitate a woodpecker by using its tail for a brace and flapping wings while holding on and then ultimately learning to properly grasp  the suet feeder and consume massive amounts of greasy food almost like a professional woodpecker - which by the way - it has a habit of scaring off now! Rare for Robins to display such personality and pluck among the other birds that rule the trees!

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Video: American Robin Hovers - Like A Hummingbird

Clever Robin - Invents a New Move!

Video: Clever Robin - Invents a New Move!

You wont believe the moves this American Robin comes up with to get a free suet meal. Highly original and clever, but a little lacking in grace, it finds just the right way to "shake it" to reach a meal. But soon that meal will be out of reach and it will need a new "move".  In the next video it learns to hover "sort of like a hummingbird" !

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Video: Clever Robin - Invents a New Move!

Robin Eating at Suet Feeder

Video: Robin Eating at Suet Feeder

This American Robin is eating voraciously at a suet feeder. Something I have not seen before. They are typically too big, long legged, and uncoordinated to hang onto the feeder basket, but this one found a convenient foothold to belly up to the rich banquet of suet that it had never tasted before! They have a nest in a nearby tree. 

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Video: Robin Eating at Suet Feeder