Sherry and I checked for the thrush today without success. We found a very interesting robin in the same field where John had described in his post.
I don?t know if this is the same bird he saw, but I uploaded 2 poor photos of this bird.

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j148/dtvhm

Dave Hayden
dtvhm AT nwrain.com
Centralia, WA