[CT Birds] Question about robins at night

[Loralee Richter]

My husband was out walking our dog late last night. He estimates it was around 11pm. He saw two robins “hopping around” on our lawn in the dark night. Does anyone know if robins are known to sometimes forage in the night, and why?

Thanks in advance for sharing any thoughts or ideas :)

Loralee Richter
Danbury, CT

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[Paul Plotnick]

Night Crawlers come out at night. That's why they call them Night Crawlers.
I used to catch them for fishing.

[Mark Aronson]

This reminds me, a few years ago a bunch of us at Todd’s Point observed a Barred Owl hopping around on the ground in broad daylight eating the worms that had risen to the top on a warm winter day. I had never imagined owls eating worms, but if they are doing this during the day I would guess they would have their fill of those Night Crawlers by moonlight too

> On Apr 4, 2021, at 11:02 PM, Paul Plotnick <pdp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Night Crawlers come out at night. That's why they call them Night Crawlers.

[Thomas Robben]

>
> What birds eat is such an important question in our understanding of them.
> And their survival.
> It is great that us birders can contribute to that knowledge about their
> food-web, their food-chains.
> Each habitat's ecosystem is largely the sum of its food-webs (i.e.,
> especially the carbon cycle part of the system, the nitrogen cycle, etc),
> of course.
> And changes in some food-webs may be one of the major causes of the
> decline of some birds.
> Google "decline in bird population" to get some articles on this
> topic, such as this one...
>
>
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-skies-billions-of-north-american-birds-have-vanished/
>
> Birders reporting their field observations, especially through eBird and
> standardized counts, is very important to enable science to keep monitoring
> and learning about this changing situation. Our field work is making a
> difference. Keep up the great work.
> Tom Robben,
> Glastonbury