Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!unify!grp From: grp@magpie.unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Robins attack my windows! Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 90 15:21:31 GMT References: <4950003@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <1990Apr4.215834.3480@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@unify.uucp (news admin) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, California Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 4 Apr 90 21:58:34 GMT (sorry about the blank posting...) In article <1990Apr4.215834.3480@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kehaar) writes: An interesting side note is that Robins seem to be aware of this instinct, because they will deliberately avoid facing each other breast-to-breast on communal feeding grounds (where many Robins get together to feed together)! R. Cody Buchmann ^.^ This is an interesting observation. I never really noticed it before, but now that you mention it, it seems somewhat obvious! Next flock of robins I see, I'll have to look for this. Thanks. -Greg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Pasquariello (916) 920-9092 grp@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac, pyramid}!unify!grp "I think I have a woodpecker!" - s. strool