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Re: robin behavior/bamboo



Rob G wrote:

>   At dusk tonight heard a huge LOUD cacaphony of birds in a small stand of
> tall bamboo near some apts. which turned out to be 100's of very
> belligerent-sounding robins flying in and out.
> What would attract them to bamboo of all things?  Why so many and so loud in
> such a confined space (about a 25 ft. stretch)?  I know robins will roost
> communally, but I've never seen so many birds roost this low to the ground,
> or this near to a bldg., or this raucously??? (sounded like a scene out of
> Hitchcock's old "Birds" film).
>
> **Rob Gluck   Chapel Hill    thrush@hotmail.com
>
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They were in all likelihood mobbing an owl hidden in the bamboo. You do not want
a predator in your home range at night when you are asleep, and he is awake.


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Alex Netherton
The Appalachian Naturalist
Asheville, NC
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