We always have a few robins over the winter here. They used to come check out our ornamental cherry tree; the cherries would be hard as wood until sometime midwinter, when the freeze/thaw cycles would make them soft and juicy. At which point 6 or 8 or LOTS robins (hard to count when they keep bopping around) would descend on the tree and pick it clean in a couple hours. Alas, one of our squirrels discovered that hard cherries are still nutritious (and these guys are used to acorns, so "hard" is relative), ate them all by the end of fall, and we've had no robins visit us this winter. 😞

Once our stream is running again we'll have robins come to bathe. Different robins like different parts of the stream; they all look alike, but their antics and patterns are very different. Some like the shallow parts, some like total immersion; one gal likes to dunk her head repeatedly, then hop on the adjacent driftwood to shake herself off once or twice or thrice.