Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 17, 2024

Timing is everything: Enjoy the north while it’s warmer and the South while it’s cooler. And probably, raising chicks is a little easier (maybe?) in the north where reptiles are mostly not so big a deal.

To make the next generation and because the food is back further North.

Don’t be a hummingbird. They’re always two hours away from starvation.

Silly Frazz, snowbirds always return north (unless they die in Florida)

Because those birds are wuzzies that always want it moderate. Too hot is bad, too.

A Goldfinch is like an acrobat?

To be or not to be?

They go south in the winder to avoid the cold, more food, more day light, more coverage

They go north in the summer, for more day light and because they can spread out more. Being able to spread out means food and more nesting locations

It’s only great down there about half the time, just like here. But, birds go where it’s great at the moment, unlike humans who arbitrarily decide that a place is their home and stay there year round, complaining about it half the time. Makes you wonder how “bird-brained” got to be a synonym for stupid.

It’s an evolutionary thing- the birds that don’t fly back get killed by the hurricanes and can’t then procreate. The smart ones have learned to fly north. Maybe…

Why come back? Because as nice as it is down there when it’s winter up here, it’s much nicer up here in the summer. (This message brought to you as an unpaid testimony by the Michigan Tourist Board. ;)

Why do they come back? The beautiful topography and to get away from the ungogly heat and humidity down there. I feel they have the best of two worlds. When Frazz is outside is when I get the biggest kick out of the komik. :-)

Good point, Frazz. We’ve got birds that stay around here all winter. They have fun laughing at the geese.

Because of the weather, genius.

Appears this year at least there were major storms in both the north and in Fla. Looks more like flipping a coin as to whether to break the pattern and remain or fly down and take their chances.

Because it gets too hot for them down south during the summer!

They fly back north every year because they’re migratory

Duh!

“All the South has is cotton, slaves and arrogance.” Rhett Butler.

I want to fly like an eagle, to the sea.

That may be Frazz’s dumbest question ever.

They fly back because the local birds don’t want them there.

Freebird!

If seagulls fly over the sea, why aren’t gulls that fly over the bay called baygulls?

The come back for the mosquitoes.

Most of my neighbors are snowbirds and they’re all back. Two of them work for the HOA, yup I avoid them.

Eagles may soar, but weasels aren’t sucked into aircraft engines!

They’re following their preferred food, generally. Birds that can find food in the winter usually stick around 365 days of the year.

For the sex

Have you ever been in the south for the summer?