Seeing American robins in Maine now does not mean that spring is soon to come. We have plenty of these hardy thrushes overwintering in the State, especially here along the coast.
They’ve been sighted in 70 to 100 percent of recent reported Christmas Bird Counts along the coast up to Eastport, according to the literature. Flocks of them will denude crabapple trees of their frozen fruit in a short time and some even go crabbing in the rockweed at low tide.
(Leighton Archive Images shown here.)