[obol] Re: Finding a Varied Thrush in the Portland area: not as easy as I thought!
- From: Harry Fuller <atowhee@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:31:53 -0700
there were many Varied Thrush on the back roads of Jackson and Klamath
Counties as I drove back and forth yesterday in the cascades, mostly above
4000 in conifers, they are still not often seen down in the Rogue
Valley...we'll see what happens when snow comes and berries up high are gone
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Tim Rodenkirk <timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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