open mike -
I've never seen a flock of robins. They normally go about in pairs and are territorial so any robins other than the brood they are rearing will be seen off. Maybe there is another bird with different habits where you are, also called a 'robin'?

Quarcoo and azizi -
If this year's eclipse symbolises slavery, what did the eclipse in 1999 symbolise, and any of the other eclipses at different times and over different parts of the world over the years? I reckon any eclipse could be hijacked for whatever political point anyone wanted to make.

I know it is spring because my pond is now full of frogspawn.

Topsie