cool dusky air settled over the campus today. everybody seemed a little sluggish and unperky, except the birds. they were swooping all over the campus as i walked out of the cafeteria. birds mostly are silent during the middle of the day, but these were chirpping here and there as they swarmed from one tree to the next. maybe it was the chill signaling that they needed to be packing up and leaving. one funny shaped juniper that had been topped out by lightning and now has two tops and is filled with clusters of frosty blue berries. after standing still under the tree for awhile, i could see that the branches were filled with young robins, their breasts just turning to rust, gobbling up berry after berry. there was such a glut to choose from they would pick the best from one bunch and then flit to another to rob that bunch of the prime berries. they were either chirpping from just being happy or maybe the berries had ripened a little bit beyond perfection.
2 comments:
how interesting. i didn't know that robins ate berries! and juniper ones at that. i also wasn't aware what animal ate juniper berries.
I am always amazed at the amount of energy birds have. Do they ever rest? or sleep? It has been interesting watching the birds gather this fall. I pointed out geese to Brodie and Kennedy as they honked by overhead.
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