Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Robins Not a Certain Harbinger Of Early Spring This Year. [ARTICLE]

Robins Not a Certain Harbinger Of Early Spring This Year.

Monticello Journal. If you see a robin red breast these days ‘around your yard or in the shade trees, it is*po sign that spring' is here, for they have been here all winter. During the holiday week a flock of between two and three hundred was seen in the woods*along the river bank below Tioga, and yesterday the same sized flock was seen in the fields around Tom Roth’s place. Many people have seen the birds, but pot in such numbers, at —different times this winter, Large flocks of robins have also been seen at Delphi along the Wabash river and at Plymouth. They are supposed to be birds from points farther north that came to this section of the country to winready. So robins and bluebirds will not be the harbingers of an early spring this year.