Waiting For Spring
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Waiting For Spring
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Textures
Description
Waiting for spring is like watching water boil sometimes. Takes forever. Robins show up anyway and play their parts, if at least to give the humans some hope!
Digitally Textured for a painterly feel. Smaller formats.
The Canadian and The American Robin (Turdus migratorius), also known as the Robin or Common Robin, is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robi because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family. 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.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.The adult robin is preyed upon by hawks, cats and larger snakes, but when feeding in flocks, it can be vigilant and watch other birds for reactions to predators. Brown-headed Cowbirds lay eggs in robin nests (see brood parasite), but robins usually reject the cowbird eggs.
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April 9th, 2013
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Comments (45)
Kathy Bassett
So happy to have Waiting For Spring featured in your group, Images That Excite You, John!
Kathy Bassett
Thank you for featuring Waiting For Spring in your Excellent Self-Taught Artists group, Joe!!
Kathy Bassett
Thanks so much for featuring Waiting For Spring in Beautiful British Columbia, Lawrence!