Hey All,

I spotted a male Varied Thrush up at Index, milepost 38, Tuesday, September
29. Can't say I've seen any down here in Seattle. But I did suspect Juncos
for several weeks now, and finally saw one today in the Western Red Cedar
that fronts my house. Hurrah. And two Song Sparrows in the back yard for
about 15 days. They come out when I turn on the water. (Yeah, I water.
You'd be amazed at how many birds a sprinkler attracts.) Nuthatches and
towhees and all manner of wrens in quantity in the Arboretum and the
immediate neighborhood plus a little brown creeper.

Wallis Bolz
Arboretum Heights, west of the Washington Park Arboretum
Public meeting on the Arboretum Master Plan Wednesday, October 21, 7-9,
McGilvra Elementary School Gym, 1617 38th Avenue East

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> From: Ruth Sullivan <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Early arrival date :The Varied Thrush.
> Date: Friday, September 25, 1998 6:58 PM
>
> Hello Tweeters,
> To our surprised, we had our first male Varied Thrush for the season.I
keep
> record on our yard birds, and in the last seven years the earliest was
23th
> of October. We have a high concentration here in Fircrest where i live.
At
> one time we had 16 at one time in my yard. But this date today make me
> wonder, if this means we going to have a verry cold winter with also
early
> snow? Did any birders had Varied Thrushes in there yard yet? I mean in
the
> city, i know there been already sightings of this species on the
outskirts
> reported.
> Its so nice to have this most colourful bird in our yard, but today was
> certainly a surprised. I been looking every day for our Hermit Thrush,
> which comes around this time, so we been looking all the time,
> Ruth Sullivan