There were about 40 to 45 robins at the garden, in two flocks, and at least 60 starlings. They were avidly feeding on any of the existing fruit: crabapples, as here, sumacs, the few amur corktrees that have escaped detection. The mountain ash fruit is mostly gone, just a few bits of rotting fruit hanging on, and now the birds have turned their attention to the crabapples they ignored earlier in the winter, when there was more choice. (CH)