Florida Today talked with some experts and learned that the birds are getting inebriated on berries left fermenting on the vine. When it gets really cold, plants stop sending nutrients to limbs, leaving the berries to rot).
Dane Culbert of the University of Florida’s extension service said he has seen hundreds of orange-breasted robins congregating in his yard in the past two weeks. “They were coming through, and it’s like, ‘Where’s Alfred Hitchcock?’ ”
"So the next time you are sitting at the police station and performing your breath analyzer test for the third time, be sure to announce that you had consumed several drunken "Robins" for dinner and you are suffering from a severe contact drunk from the birds". ~ Jim (also be sure to have a few Robin feathers to shove in your mouth just prior to the arresting officer approaching your vehicle...it may add more weight to your absurd claim)
