The Cracker Barrel: Reflections

The Cracker Barrel: Reflections

All things considered, robins are wonderful birds. They’re common as gravel and humbly appointed, disdaining the flash of the oriole or the aerial tricks of the hummingbird. They sing quite beautifully but spend most of their time at work, extracting worms from the earth and winging them up to their ravenous young. They get down to business early each spring and stick around our parts till late fall, and when they depart they do so quietly, a fe…