No, it wouldn't verify the environment is warming. The last 2 years have actually been cooler.
> On December 5, 2018 at 2:31 PM [email protected] wrote: > > > Which would verify the science that the environment is warming . . . . which > allows birds such as robins to overwinter here now. It hasn't been uncommon > for 5-8 years in the Cities. > > Quoting Mary M White / Charles R Neil <[email protected]>: > > > But isn't it true that large numbers of over-wintering robins in the Twin > > Cities is a relatively new phenomenon? I am now 67 and grew-up in St. Paul, > > and it seems to me that very few robins overwintered when I was a boy. > > There were likely many fewer Twin Cities Christmas counts in the 1950s and > > 60s, but my guess is that a review of those counts would show that > > over-wintering robins were rare at that time. > > Chuck Neil, Embarrass > > > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM Manley Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Robins regularly overwinter, sometimes in large numbers. Counts in the > >> hundreds have been recorded on area Christmas counts. As long as the > >> crab apples hold out you will see them in your yard. I have seen a few > >> this past week. > >> Manley Olson Minneapolis > >> > >> On 12/5/2018 11:53 AM, Sharon Fischtrom wrote: > >> > I?m curious - I have a flock of robins hanging out in my crab apple tree > >> - shouldn?t they get the heck out of here? Like last month? > >> > > >> > Sharon Fischtrom > >> > St. Paul Highland Park > >> > > >> > Sent from my iPhone > >> > > >> >> On Dec 5, 2018, at 11:27 AM, Bruce Baer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> The Northern Raven was seen at the Bass Ponds at 9:30 this morning > >> sitting in the trees along Long Meadow Lake. Then flying across to the > >> north side. A look at the bird feeders at the refuge HQ might find it. > >> Still large numbers of Hooded Mergansers present with Lesser Scaup, > >> Ring-neck Duck, two swans, a hybrid Mallard, kingfisher. > >> >> > >> >> Bruce Baer > >> >> > >> >> Bloomington > >> >> > >> >> ---- > >> >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > >> >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > >> > ---- > >> > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > >> > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > >> > > >> > >> ---- > >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > >> > > > > ---- > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
