The Arrival of the High Speed Robins
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
March 2, 2017 5:16pm CST
The Arrival of the High Speed Robins -
You will certainly know when the robins arrive here in this part of Texas.
I heard the red-breast robin birds tweeting and peeping the other day as they hassled each other for prime spaces from which to catch spring worms.
Today, as I tooled the mobility scooter over to our mailbox (to pick up some more bills), I took my eyes off of the street (bad practice) and looked up into the sky from which emanated a great deal more of robin tweeting and peeping.
There they were, up there tooling around in the sky above our house, their bird motors making contrails in the yet cold air of early March - late, late winter around these parts.
They even performed the "X marks the spot" maneuver as I watched that big marker in the sky take shape.
Image: X Marks the Spot - Gus Kilthau
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I've never had a photo post upside down and I would have had no idea how to fix it. And anyway this is how the world really looks.
@kevin1877uk (36988)
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2 Mar 17
Lol, they must be good birds to make that "X" in the sky.
We have Robin's in the UK
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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3 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman There are a large family from what I seem to remember with many different types of Robins.
The photo was taken back in 2013 of the robins we have here.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
3 Mar 17
@kevin1877uk - Kevin - You are correct. These are very good birds - the only springtime birds that I know of that can fly around at Mach-3 or better. -Gus-
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
3 Mar 17
That's cool, Kevin. I wonder if they are the same species. I think ,Anna, talked about a different variety last year. I don't remember now whether it was the robins or some other bird.
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@jhechorain (1198)
• Susanville, California
2 Mar 17
So many beautiful birds coming out at this time of year. These sound fun to observe.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
2 Mar 17
Thank goodness the robins are not really big enough to do that! Could you imagine the mess we would have to clean up?
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
3 Mar 17
@PatZAnthony - Ms Pat - Well, yes. I had been imagining just that this very morning and, as a consequence, had been planning on ordering some bonus-sized cleanup shovels (and the like) from Amazon. The only thing they had for me, however, was a "Grade-All" motorized scooper machine, and those are not allowed on my current reservation. -Gus-
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
3 Mar 17
@Ceerios Too bad. It sounds like a machine you could have had some fun with.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
3 Mar 17
Ah - spring is there and so are the robins huh? We have a long time to wait, here.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
3 Mar 17
@FayeHazel - Ms Faye - Wherever "here" may be, I hope that "here" gets nice and warm quicker than a cat might lick its fanny. 
-Gus-
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
3 Mar 17
@Hatley - Ms Patsie - There are vast numbers of things that nice people such as Ms Patsie and your California "Governor Moonbeam" are unaware. The real reason that Robin birds overshoot landings in California is due to their belief that the California worms are also running away from them at high speed - so they mess up on their calculations and miss the state entirely. -Gus-
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
3 Mar 17
You had me going there for a few minutes. I was going to say they don't do that in the sky in Michigan. I never knew that your state was one of many that hosted, Michigan's state bird. Does anyone know where they do go for the winter months?
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
5 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman - Ms Marsha - Houston is on the southeastern part of Texas where the winters are rarely very cold, It hardly ever freezes in Houston. -Gus-
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
7 Mar 17
@Ceerios You are quite confusing. Do the robins tend to live there near you in the winter months or do they just fly through on their way north. Or, maybe they will even stay there the summer long or until it gets hotter or some stay and others leave.
I'm not sure that you can seriously answer this question though without another silly reply. 
I may need to research it if I really want to know.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
5 Mar 17
@Ceerios Right! Sorry, but I don't believe your explanation for a second.
I also mispoke what I meant to say is that I figured Texas was one of the many states that hosted robins until they could return to Michigan when it gets warmer. Maybe your area of Texas gets colder than I realized and robins don't stick around there very long when it begins getting cold? Do they stay the winter through in other, warmer parts of Texas?
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