I dont know where you living? but i live in tacoma comminity call fircrest
lot;s of fir-trees around.
We get our first Varied Thrushes mostly in Dezember with one year 1994 in
November18.
here are my dates:1995 dezember 8 1996 dezember 2, there stayed to april
28. we had a high count last year, at one point the count was 28.
Ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Anthony <paulkrik at eskimo.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Varied Thrushes
> Date: Sunday, November 23, 1997 5:15 PM
>
> We saw a varied thrush in Kirkland about 2 weeks ago. Haven't seem him
or
> her again.
>
> >Has anyone noticed a lack of Varied Thrushes this year? Last winter,
our
> >first one didn't come until Thanksgiving, but we had about five the rest
> >of the winter. I saw one in our yard in October, the day after the
first
> >mountain snowfall, but he was eaten by a Cooper's Hawk about a week
> >later. Has the weather just been too mild for them to move yet, or is
my
> >yard just devoid of them for some reason?
> >
> >
> >Michael Dossett
> >Shoreline, Washington
> >mpdossett at Juno.com
> >
> >