Ooopsie VAbirders,
Sorry that I neglected to mention that after the thrasher finished the
cicada nymph it flew to the Redbud tree. Brain glitch due to excitement!
Lori Markoff
Dripping orange I grabbed my binox and ran to look out the window near
that spruce. Looking down I could see the Brown Thrasher on the
ground. He was munching too, but not on an orange, he was munching a
cicada nymph. Yum yum yum!
I called to my daughter and said, "Come look at the thrasher in the Redbud
tree!" She joined me and said, "It's not in the Redbud." I pointed at
the thrasher and said, "Yes it is, right there!" "Not in the Redbud," she
repeated. And surprised, I saw she was looking at another Brown Thrasher
sitting a few feet away from the first. Indeed she was correct yet again,
for her thrasher was in the Black Chokeberry. She always finds birds I
don't see!
