I've seen Robbins around our lawn sprinkler before... I'll have to keep my camera more handy in case they show up again
They are looking for worms. The watering makes them surface and the robins love to eat them.
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That's good to know! We're trying to get some seeds to start, so I'm not watering that deep. It seems like our first good spring rain drives out a bumper crop of worms - they're all over the street. My kids enjoy going for a walk to collect them in a bucket to put them in our vegetable garden. That usually happens before the robins arrive though.
Been fascinated by that sprinkler design since I was a child.
Same! It's a great design if you're lazy and want to cover a lot of area. I bought this one at a local ace 7 or so years ago and it's been going strong with minimal attention.
Do you know the brand?
I got this one at my local ace hardware. It's Nelson branded, but this general design has been around decades. I'm sure thrt are a number of different mechanical underpinnings. We've had this one 7 or so years in and it's holding up well. It makes covering a large area very easy.
I found one, Nelson Traveling Lawn Sprinkler.
Very interesting design, it really travels slowly, following a hose.
That's probably the same one we have, or at least a closely related sibling.
Mine has two different speeds it follows, but yes - it doesn't move very quickly. You can also mess with the angle of the sprayer which will impact the amount of water delivered to the area it covers.