I was surprised by the seemingly mild level of interest in Lane county's
Brown Thrasher. My first thought was the heavy rain. Then I suspected
something else might be happening, so I downloaded the list of observations
in Oregon of the Brown Thrasher for all time from eBird.
Robert Lockett entered the earliest account of the species on 30 September
2021, dated 31 October 1974, at Malheur NWR--Headquarters. The date of the
most recent observation, as you are aware, is 4-5 December 2021.
For those of us who prefer to avoid evening math other than counting sheep
- the records in eBird span 47 years. On average, eBird records yield
observations of Brown Thrasher in 7 out of every ten years, which
translates to a total of 33 of the intervening years.
Someone realized this evening they just fell off the "turnip truck,"
Jack Williamson
West Linn
