american robin

Thanks to several renowned restaurants, bakeries, farmers' markets and specialty stores, much of Berkeley from the campus northwards is known as "Gourmet Ghetto" or "Gourmet Gulch". This American Robin seems happy with the food served on campus, at any rate.

Has been a cool spring here so far with a couple of heavy wet snowfalls in the last week. The robins are having trouble finding food I think, making do with these dry berries on a Mountain Ash.

Was concentrating on ducks in pond and using car as a blind and almost missed this fellow when he landed in grass right next to my car.

Flocks of robins all along the dikes. This one was nicely sitting in a tree and the bare red blueberry bushes gave a nice pastel background colour.

This crowd of American Robins didn't know how to share. I never saw such a group of belligerent creatures. It was hilarious!

Just enjoying the sunshine on the fence to the neighbor's yard.

Not so much with the Robins as I have them all winter long but finally some blue sky and vegetation.

2011 Hugo Chikamori, FalconRose Photography, all rights reserved Sometimes you don't have to go very far to experience wildlife. This was shot outside my house in my front yard. There were three American Robins cavorting in my front yard and this one happily posed for the camera.

Lots of American Robins around here right now. One of the things I like best about them, is that it is not hard to catch them in the act of eating something. Worms, bugs, berries the Robin likes them all.

They actually perch giving a good view.

Frozen rain all damn day with more than 100 car accidents in my town. I took a vacation day ;)

9x11 inches, 6x8 just image. Linocut. Gamblin oil-based ink on Rives BFK paper. Based on photo and watercolor of robins at our backyard birdbath during winter of 2006-2007. Limited edition of 30.

I don't remember how it came up, but we'd been talking about the cult movie "Planet 9 from outer space" one night, a day or two before I saw the am. robins feasting on toyon. This is a movie Bela Lugosi "stars" in post-humously. He died before the movie was finished, so they...

A robin from outing the other day to local nature preserve. I many times overlook this beauties because they are so common.

A nice pose from this American beauty. The American Robin is the first bird I recall seeing as a child (and that was a long time ago). Being one of the most common birds in North America, I've been lucky to see them all my life as I've moved from the midwest, to the west coast and now on the...

As I still get a few during the Fall and Winter months

This was taken a couple of hours after a horrific thunder and lightning storm. One tree got hit and many other branches were blown down in the wind. Not sure if this juvie Robin was lost or just glad to be out of the blowing trees.

I can always expect a visit from the Robins afterwards. This one isn't on the grass though ;)

Saw this pale fellow at a cemetery near my home in Iowa, USA.

They and the various blackbirds seem to be everywhere now....caught in mid-chirp.

More this Spring than I've seen in a long time.

The American Robin is many times overlooked by many photographers, including myself, because it is so common a bird here. But it is really quite stunning in it's own right so now and then I try to take a few shots of them.