Wow, quite the cacophony of VARIED THRUSHES going off this morning here in
this Bellevue Eastgate neighborhood!! Just standing out in my back yard
early this morning (like, right now!), I counted at the very least a dozen,
some deafeningly close, others far, and everywhere in between. How can the
VARIED THRUSH not be unanimously chosen as Washington's new and revised
State Bird?!?

Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA