Robin in the Juniper Tree
by Karon Melillo DeVega
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Robin in the Juniper Tree
Artist
Karon Melillo DeVega
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This beautiful female American Robin was not too happy about my presence because she had a nest of eggs in this Juniper tree (just out of the frame of this picture), but I wanted to try to get a photo of her, so I placed a ladder next to the tree and climbed to the top of the ladder, and while holding on to the ladder with one hand, I took this picture of her with my right hand. (not an easy thing to do with a Canon EOS 50D due to the weight of the camera trying to steady for a clear photo). But I thanked her for allowing me to take the photo and left her alone so she would not be alarmed. She nested and raised four beautiful babies which I got to observe over the next few weeks until they left the nest and flew out into the meadow. The family of Robins stayed in the area and returned the next year.
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"The American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family."
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"The American Robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering south of Canada from Florida to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to some sources, the American Robin ranks behind only the Red-winged Blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European Starling) as the most abundant, extant land bird in North America. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confinis in the southwest is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts."
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"The American Robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated." (information quote from wikipedia.org)
I took this photograph on 04 August 2011 at 4:44PM
Canon EOS 50D
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