Subject: [Tweeters] Varied Thrush
Date: Sep 19 10:18:21 2015
From: Ed Swan - Edswan2 at comcast.net


Heard my first Varied Thrush of the season this morning coming up out of the
Fairmont greenbelt in West Seattle. It was kind of a birdy moment as the
neighborhood birds discovered the two feeders I put up yesterday so the
resident flock of Band-tailed Pigeons continuted coming in and chasing off
the jays while the chickadees, Song Sparrows and nuthatches kept diving in
and out. A bright male Wilson's Warbler came in to check out the commotion,
either a migrant passing through or possibly the one that stayed the summer.
A Western Tanager began calling, then perched with a large bright red berry
of some sort, do they eat rose hips? Also, a Townsend's Warbler belted out
one phrase of its song but stayed hidden otherwise.



Ed

edswan2 at comcast.net