Tweeters,

After about ten days of more and more insistent call-noting from Swainson's
Thrushes in my neighborhood (presumably starting when they arrived here as
migrants), I finally heard several males singing this evening at around 9:00
p.m., a time of day their singing seems to reach its peak in the late spring
and early summer. A number of other Swainson's Thrushes were calling
("whit" and "wink" notes and their burry braying call). The singing males
birds were spread over about a quarter mile stretch that I walked, and
singing both from the edge of the hillside adjacent to my house and from
some of the larger trees on the valley floor along Scatter Creek. The
combination of the thrush songs and a winnowing snipe overhead was just
about right for an end of the day musical theme.

Good birding.


Bob Sundstrom
ixoreus at scattercreek.com
Tenino, WA