Our 1st Robin of the year !

[Greg Baehman]

"Anybody got some worms? This is B.S.!"

[Dean Romig]

Fifty years ago it was extremely rare to see a Robin around this latitude in winter but with the "global warming" (:shock:) that we find ourselves in Robins stay around in flocks, eating dried crab apples and thornapples and such from trees and I've even seen them 'budding' much like grouse do in winter... but I've never seen one at a bird feeder.






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[Richard Flanders]

This Robin is clearly looking for a snow cone treat.

[charlie cleveland]

nice picture......i ve heard of people eating robin pie.....charlie

[Greg Baehman]

I wonder if Robin Pie tastes similar to Woodcock Pie? Not that I'd like to try a piece of either, but it may be interesting to see a recipe for Robin Pie if you're able to chase that down, Charlie.

TIA,

[Robin Lewis]

Actually, it sounds like they are good eating. In France it seems they are game birds. Recipes..... :shock:
http://chestofbooks.com/food/recipes/Epicurian/Recipes-For-Thrushes-Grives.html

[Richard Flanders]

From what I've seen and read, trapping songbirds of all sizes for food was/is? the standard in Merry old England and in other parts of Europe. I remember some movie I saw not that many years ago that had kids trapping every little tweety bird they could get. I know that parrots certainly make excellent table fare.

[John Dallas]

My wife's grandfather, during the depression, shot sparrows with a BB gun to put meat on the table

[Dean Romig]

I prefer woodcock to Robin... but they are similar. It is my experience that Robin breasts are drier than woodcock.






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[Bill Murphy]

I hear Robin tastes a bit like Owl, but it takes more Robins to make a meal. One or two Owl will make a good meal.

[Richard Flanders]

I can also tell you that even hawk makes a palatable meal. The Mayan indians I had working for me in the jungle in Belize killed everything that moved, which was pretty irritating if it was something they wouldn't eat. One day they shot a hawk so I had my cook make a soup of it for breakfast. The guys wouldn't touch it, of course, but I did and it was tasty enough. The only other thing they wouldn't eat was snakes, not even the meaty 7ft Fer de lance I brought in one day. To them, every snake was poisonous. Other than these anomalies, we pretty much ate everything else that moved - little jungle deer, armadillos, river otter, parrots, McCaw, Gibnut(a nutria clone with chipmunk markings), grouse we took with sling shots and smallish turkey-like birds , wild pigs, you name it. We would have eaten tapir but they were too big since we were on the move daily.

[Greg Baehman]

My nominee for the "2018 PGCA Andrew Zimmern Award" goes out to none other than Richard Flanders of Fairbanks, AK for his gut-wrenching accounts of a life well-lived!

Would anyone care to 2nd this nomination?

[Jim DiSpagno]

I second that emotion as the sons goes LOL

[Richard Flanders]

Sometimes it's fun to have experiences in your quiver that require zero embellishment.