The Breeze has regularly reported the first robin sighting of the calendar year in hope that spring is on the way. The notion that robins are a harbinger of warmer weather, however, is not supported by science.

That said, a wave of robins numbering 16 or more visited the Ranch (the home of the Breeze) on January 2nd. We have not seen any hop, hop, hopping or bob, bob, bobbing since the temperatures dipped into…