Subject: Re: Varied Thrush
Date: Nov 24 17:01:19 1997
From: Anthony - paulkrik at eskimo.com


>It's curious you should mention a lack of these birds at lower elevations.
>I have never seen as many at higher elevations as i did this fall. There
>were very large and active flocks up to 5000 ft at least until two weeks
>ago. I'm used to seeing varied thrush as solitary individuals, not in
>flocks of 30+.

Is it possible that the unusually warm mid November weather kept some of the
little fellow in their summer habitat a bit longer than normal. After all
we had some days when the thermometer hit 66 degrees.