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Seed-eating robin

12 years ago

I have never seen a robin eat seeds before but I have one in my yard that has decided he likes the seeds. I had a feeder with shelled BOSS that got really wet so I dumped it out and put it in a tray to dry out. I put the tray on top of my composter and the robin comes and eats the seeds. They are quite dry from being wet and then sitting in the sun but he seems to like them. I also had a robin this spring eat all the suet that I had in a little dish on the ground. Never saw them eat suet either. He also loves the grape jelly that I put out for the orioles this spring. He cleans that up pretty good. These robins seem to have varied their diet lol. He/she also loves any raisins that I put in the feeder. Anyone else have seed-eating robins?

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