… flock together.
It was crowded on the perimeter path at Council Point Park this morning, despite my earlier-than-usual arrival to beat the heat. Yes “beat the heat” … you read that correctly. It was already 62 degrees when I left the house, and 71 degrees by the time I returned home. This sudden Summerfest is just incredible, since three days ago I was wearing woolens. Today, as the walkers flocked down to the walking path at Council Point Park, we were dressed similarly in tee-shirts and capris or shorts.
Although there were many walkers pounding that asphalt trail, it was fairly quiet as each one was lost in thought, merely mouthing “hello” or “good morning” when we passed one another like two ships in the night.
It was peaceful, that is, except for a few fractious geese that were honking their heads off every so often. It was so quiet I could hear the squirrels enjoying their peanuts, that cracking noise as they crunched into the shell. Yup, that quiet.
I want to write about the robin at the Park today. He was hopping on the grass near the walking trail, as he studied the ground for grubs and/or worms. He picked up the occasional piece of grass or twig, discarding it when he realized it had no nutritional value.
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This robin redbreast continued stabbing the ground but came up empty. The ground was dry, and likely, despite two days of hot weather, still cold from our chilly Spring. With no worms or grubs to be found, he looked up and saw me watching him. I said “after all this rain, you’ll have worms galore.” All I got was a scowl for my sympathy.
Perhaps he was hungry and he knew I couldn’t accommodate him – robins don’t “do” peanuts, so I didn’t toss out any.
The tee-shirts and shorts have emerged from the depths of bureau drawers where we packed them away long ago for this imposter Summer, and also brought a welcome sight, my first cabbage white butterfly which flitted around my front yard as I was walking up the driveway. It danced around the dandelions which cropped up overnight.
This post is short and sweet as we have stormy weather which just erupted, the result of too hot, too soon temps. More rain and storms are destined in the next 48 hours. Though I’ve whined about the Winter, then chilly Spring … this hot weather is not to my liking either, so perhaps I’m just a malcontent?!
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
I love your beautiful detailed description of everyday sights that many do not see. Lovely ❤
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Thank you so much for saying that – I like to write my walks like that, so others feel like they tagged along with me. And you, too, will see what I see from those descriptions. The walk in the morning with the songbirds and woodpecker pecking holes in the tree, squirrels crunching peanuts … it just makes my day with its calming effect. I come home and start my job a few hours later. I work from home so that makes the daily walk possible. Your post today was very insightful – it makes one think. It is raining hard now and starting to storm, a weather event I can do without. The heat brought severe storms and writing the post at least distracted me from it somewhat. Take care.
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Miss Linda………………………..those are some awesome Robin close-up pictures you took………………………I’m enjoying them…………………….
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Ann Marie – he posed for me for about five minutes … didn’t move a muscle after deciding there was nothing there to eat. I think he’ll find some worms there after last night’s soaking rain and for sure after today’s multiple rains. Glad you like the pictures.
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Such a beautiful bird.😊 I love robins and this is not like “ours” we have here, the European robin, in Swedish called Rödhake, which means red chin, but it´s more yellow then red. 😁
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I remember you said you liked robins when I did the post about the robin’s nest/eggs … I didn’t know there were different types of robins, so I just learned something. They are not so skittish as the other birds in the Park who, if they go to ground level, will make a hasty retreat.
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I enjoy watching the robins find worms in our backyard. They cock their heads and seem to hop to just the right spot to snatch them. Our ground is so wet right now that worms seem to be very easy to find.
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I like watching the birds and their antics. We have had lots of rain as well and it’s still not over. Do you ever go out after a huge Summer rain and worms are slithering everywhere and a robin is tugging a big worm out of the ground or wrestling with a long worm on the sidewalk? They are funny to watch. I see birds bathing in big puddles in the street or in people’s gutters after a big rain.
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I’m so glad that we finally got rain! I’m as happy as the robins! 🙂
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And I was going to share our rain with you … oh well, next time. We’ve already had a lot of rain yesterday, today and through mid-day tomorrow. I slept through the storm that came through our area at 11:45 p.m. with its 50 mph winds. I lost power momentarily … just long enough for the digital clocks to act up. You need to take some dewy up-close photos now.
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I’m retired and sleep-in late and go to bed late; no morning dewy up-close photos from me! 🙂
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Your post reminded me of the song Rockin Robin:
He rocks in the tree tops all day long
Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and singing his song
All the little birdies on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet
It’s a fun song to jitterbug to.
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Ha ha – I remember that song too. I think there is an older version of that song, but I remember Michael Jackson singing it before his voice changed. That brings back memories. My original post title was going to be “When the Red, Red Robin goes bob, bob bobbin’ along” but I didn’t use it because it would have been too long and I figured I’d REALLY be dating myself by using it. I can remember my mom singing that song when we’d see the first robin of the year.
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I had forgotten about the Michael Jackson version (I, of course, am dating myself by referring to the original version 🙂 ).
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Well I remember hearing the original version too and the Al Jolson version of “Red Red Robin” … I date myself a lot in my blogs and think some people don’t know what I’m talking about so I’ll include a link to a song or book, etc. so they don’t think I made it up. 🙂
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Robins listen to hear worms moving! They must have very good hearing! How all the noise around them doesn’t affect them is beyond me!
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Wow – I did not know that Wayne. A fellow blogger commented that she sees robins cocking their head and it looks amusing and it must be when they are listening for worms.
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yep,they have acute hearing abilities!
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That’s amazing! We had an amazing weather day too. I was lucky because 260,000 people lost power … at 1:00 p.m. wind gusts were clocked at 63 mph and torrential rain. I am not surprised as we had temps in the mid-80s. Last Sunday when I went to the River to take some pictures, the fisherman and I were bundled up with hats, and gloves and it was frosty, two days later, in short sleeves. Global warming – look what is happening in Hawaii … volcano erupted and now an earthquake.
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all sounds like fairly normal stuff.Nature is always unpredictable.
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That it is.
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Lovely robin! Just noticed spindly their legs are, compared to their plump body! Maybe the body is mostly… air?? Lol!
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Ha ha – I never noticed and it is like a race horse – such a sturdy body on those slender legs, which causes so many problems and horses are put down.
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