Subject: [Tweeters] Edmonds Yard Bird: Varied Thrush
Date: Feb 22 08:46:23 2010
From: Wayne Weber - contopus at telus.net


Carol,

You have had bad luck with Varied Thrushes. Do you do much birding in the
mountains? In the Washington Cascades and Olympics, Varied Thrush is one of
the most abundant of all breeding birds above 3000 or 3500 feet altitude.
They are usually fairly common as wintering birds in the western lowlands,
although numbers vary widely. There is usually also a very obvious spring
migration in the lowlands during March and April. (The southward migration
seems to be mostly in the mountains.) You must have missed the migration
last spring!

Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC
contopus at telus.net



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Carol
Riddell
Sent: February-21-10 7:03 AM
To: Tweeters
Subject: [Tweeters] Edmonds Yard Bird: Varied Thrush

Hi Tweets,

I haven't seen a Varied Thrush since 2008. Not one at all in 2009.
Now a male was just scratching around in the safflower seed with an
early morning Spotted Towhee. I saw it at 6:45 a.m. (2-21-10) and
it is already gone. It seems a little late in the season to have a
first Varied Thrush of winter, but I'll take it! What a great way to
start the day.

Carol Riddell
Edmonds