Parting Shots — 2.13.12

On his Outdoors blog, Rich Landers offers this report from birder Joanne Powell of Greenacres: “About 9 a.m. I was looking out at my backyard and hundreds of robins appeared, hung around for about 10 minutes then moved west. I went to my front porch and at least 300 robins were perched in the bare deciduous trees lining N. Hodges Rd. They seem to be moving west very slowly so keep an eye out.” More here.

Question: Have you seen flocks of robins in your back yard? And/or: Do you consider robin’s to be the first sure sign that spring is on the way?