[obol] Re: Finding a Varied Thrush in the Portland area: not as easy as I thought!
- From: Tim Rodenkirk <timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: janet.leavens1@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:26:44 -0700
Janet,
You can listen for them but just driving along forested roads at dawn is
the best- Hendrick Herlyn had some good locations. If you are out and
about on back roads that are heavily forested from about dawn to
sunrise those robin-sized birds you see flying up off the road are often
Varied Thrushes. Once the sun is up they leave the roadsides and are much
more difficult to find. I don't know Mt. Tabor at all but I imagine if you
get there at sunrise or a bit before you could see quite a few of them.
Good luck!
Tim R
Coos Bay
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Janet Leavens <janet.leavens1@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Wow! Oregon birders are so helpful! I got at least 17 responses to my
> query.
>
> The general consensus was that we need to haul our butts out of bed a lot
> earlier (although this advice was always phrased much more politely :-) )
> and listen for them calling (in appropriate habitat) at the crack of dawn.
> We'll have a chance to do that Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. I'll
> write back if we've had any success.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Janet Leavens
> Oviedo, FL
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Janet Leavens <janet.leavens1@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My husband and I are here visiting the Portland area for the week (from
>> Central Florida). We've already visited the coast and have had lots of
>> luck, finding 9 lifers including Northern Shrike; White-tailed Kite and
>> Heerman's Gull.
>>
>> However, we've had no luck whatsoever with Varied Thrush. According to
>> eBird, they seem to be all around us and have been reported from almost
>> every location we've birded. Yet, although we've seen other skulkers and
>> hard to see birds (Hermit Thrush, Pacific and Bewick's Wren, Brown Creeper)
>> we've yet to (knowingly) see or hear a Varied Thrush. So, can anyone give
>> us any tips? Are Varied Thrushes still singing (I suppose not)? Are they
>> calling? Are they only really active at one particular time of day? Do the
>> favor some specific habitat that we're missing? I have been assuming they'd
>> be found in well wooded areas like Hermit Thrushes, but maybe I'm wrong.
>> Does luck really have something to do with it -- as is some days you can
>> find 5 and others zero? Is there any particular spot that is really
>> reliable for the species?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any info!
>>
>> Janet Leavens
>> Oviedo, FL
>>
>
>
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