Several years ago I saw numbers of Varied Thrushes picking at the fat from
an elk hide. This was early October in the mountains west of Yakima.

Randy Hill
Othello
hill at cbnn.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Isah Webb" <isahwebb at yahoo.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: varied thrush on suet?


> At about 11:15 this morning, the neighborhood
> birds staged a full scale invasion of my yard. In all,
> I counted about 25 juncos, 6 song sparrows, 4 red
> breasted nuthatches, about 10 of both black-capped and
> chestnut-backed chickadees, about 17 varied thrushes,
> 3 brown creepers, about 13 golden crowned kinglets, 2
> flickers (red shafted), 2 hairy woodpeckers and a
> pileated. The entire ground appeared to be moving, and
> our feeders were constantly occupied. At one point, a
> female varied thrush jumped up onto the suet feeder,
> wobbled precariously on it for a second as it
> nervously surveyed the yard, and then spent a few
> minuets pecking at the contents. I for one have never
> seen them do this (at least in my yard). We use suet
> with peanuts in it, so i did not think there would be
> anything appetizing for the thrushes.
> All in all, a nice way to start a weekend.
>
> Isah Webb
> Woodinville, WA
>
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