ROBINS: Looks like the robins are sticking around. Readers have contacted us with a couple more sightings across the area.

One reader emailed a short video clip taken on Monday in Limestone, N.Y., of several robins flying in an apple tree.

Then, on Tuesday afternoon, Harold “Hawkeye” Whitman of Bradford called to let us know he saw a flock of robins behind George G. Blaisdell Elementary School.

Hawkeye was watching the birds with his granddaughters, Hannah and Adison Butters. They got the binoculars out to get a better view of the birds.

He explained the birds — at least 15 of them — were “eating the withered up crabapples” off the trees in the area. “They appear to be very hungry.”

Seeing robins — usually considered a sign that spring is nigh — in February, he commented that Punxsutawney Phil “is nuts.” The robins sure don’t seem to think we have six more weeks of winter ahead of us.

40 BELOW: What odd weather we’ve been having.

It reached the low 50s on Tuesday with rain. Temperatures are expected to fall back into the 30s today, and it’s snow and temps in the 20s for Thursday’s forecast. The ups and downs wreak havoc on our moods and our health.

Well, “We’re lucky these days,” said Clyde Johnson of Port Allegany.

He recalls talk of a February day with weather nobody would ask for.

“My brother, Carl Johnson of Shinglehouse, he was born Feb. 8, 1934, in Port Allegany. It was 40 below that morning,” said Clyde.

Brrr.

When his mother called for the doctor, he told her he’d just bought a brand-new Ford and didn’t know if it would start in such cold. It did.

Clyde mentioned one more detail that shows a big difference between then and now. He believes his mother had the baby at home and waited until after Carl was born to call the doctor.