Robins and Onions Problem

[Martin Luber]

Sounds similar to woodcock to me...since they taste like worms, I'll pass on eating them.

[gwpercle]

I once knew a guy from another country that preferred robin breast to quail or dove.

762

Heck Yeah ... Only Federal Songbird protection laws stopped the consumption of robins around here before that they would migrate from up North , about mid squirrel season , fill up the woods and practically beg to be taken as game .... they just walked around on the ground like they had good sense ... a boy with a sling shot or 22 could take enough to feed the whole family.

Was that other country Louisiana ?

Gary

[parson48]

A neighbor had problems with robins pulling up his onions last year. I had never heard of such a thing. I guess that a little onion just might help the worm go down easier!

[Chill Wills]

Are the potatoes next?
"I guess that a little onion just might help the worm go down easier! "

[jimlj]

When I was a kid Robins were strictly off limits for me and my brothers BB guns. The cats would dispose of any evidence of other birds, but for some reason they wouldn't touch a Robin. Mom always knew when we shot one. That all changed when Mom got a cherry tree. Seems the Robins would devour the cherries the day before they were ripe enough to be picked. After a few years of no cherries they became a trash bird that was to be shot on sight.

[rockrat]

They would congregate in the bushes at my Grandfathers house, in the Spring, when they were migrating. There would be 500 of them, at least on many an evening. Made quite a mess on the sidewalk

[Oyeboten]

Tent with hardware cloth.

Yes, what retread says -

[quack1]

Tenting them works. Never had trouble with robins, but English sparrows shred my lettuce as soon as it gets about an inch high. Made the tents out of window screen.

[Johnch]

Something must have changed
As today I saw several Robins in the garden going after worms
But non came close to the onions

But this morning I had thick fog for a while
Maybe ??

Oh well

But I do now have a remote controlled drone
So IF a robin starts pulling onions again
I can get up CLOSE to take some pictures LOL
Maybe REAL CLOSE

John