Subject: Swainson's Thrushes Sing at Last
Date: May 18 07:39:43 2004
From: mikewile at comcast.net - mikewile at comcast.net


They also began singing at my home in Redmond last night. Roughly 8-10 started singing about the same time as Bob's.

Mike Wile
Redmond, WA
425-503-5766
mikewile at comcast.net


> 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
>