[obol] Re: 6/12/14 - Union County, OR : BROWN THRASHER
- From: Stephen Deagle <sdeagle@xxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL online <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:46:34 -0700
This is very exciting news and your photo is good, Trent!
I was happy to read this after that terrible story about the dying rufous
hummingbird. Oh my gosh, that was so depressing! I guess I need to toughen
up.....but that report pretty much ruined my afternoon.
Susie Deagle
On Jun 12, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Redacted sender AVITOURS@xxxxxxx for DMARC wrote:
> Birders -
> Today (6/12, 3:17 PM), at work, I received a call from La Grande birder,
> Jo Cowling. Jo explained that she and her husband Dave Osmick had recently
> (since Tuesday), seen a bright reddish brown bird with a long tail (larger
> than a Robin), sneaking around there place, acting very shy. This morning,
> around 11 AM, Jo heard a jumbled song that she was not familiar with, so
> she got on the internet and listened to various bird calls, and found that
> the mystery bird sounded like a Brown Thrasher, but all of the books show
> that they are not supposed to be here. She reluctantly called me, and
> after
> listening to her for a minute, I asked if I could drive out and take a
> look.
> I put a note on the door at work, jumped in the truck, and arrived at
> there place south east of La Grande at about 3:40 PM. We slowly walked
> around
> her wonderfully plant diverse yard and talked about birds and Thrashers,
> and the like. At approximately 4:15 PM, I heard and then saw the bird in
> their Pea Hedge and sure enough it was a BROWN THRSHER. I know of no other
> Union County records of this species. A photo can be viewed from my eBird
> submission here:
> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18772097
> I explained to Jo how rare bird sightings work, the OBRC, private
> property, birders, etc. Jo's husband recently got out of the hospital, and
> she
> would like to share the bird with others, but she requests that people
> e-mail
> her and schedule a time to try to view the bird instead of just dropping
> by. Jo's email address is:
> ejtmq@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Good birding,
> - Trent
> The Bobolink - Linking Birders & Birds
> 1707 5th Street
> La Grande, OR 97850
> (541) 963 - 2888
> avitours@xxxxxxx
>
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