[wisb] Varied Thrush---yard!!!
- From: Daryl Tessen <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:11 -0600
I was sitting early this afternoon talking to a friend on the phone
when I noticed a black and orangish bird fly into one of the
crabapple trees near the living room window. A female VARIED
THRUSH!!! To say I was excited is an understatement! It
immediately flew to a spring snow crabapple tree where there were
berries left over by the robins and waxwings this fall. For the next
almost two hours it would eat berries and then fly into an adjacent
hemlock tree for protection from the wind (and the 3 Cooper's Hawks
that are around too often). It only fed on the berries and did not
check out any of the feeders or what was on the ground. (I cannot
throw the appropriate seed out for it due to squirrel problems, both
red and gray.) As the berries are almost gone from the 5 spring
snows that I have in the yard, it is highly questionable if the bird
will remain.
Needless to say this is the first Varied Thrush I have ever had in my
yard. (I encouraged the friend to come over. She had great looks at
it during the next hour when it came out to feed on the berries. It
was a life bird for her.)
I do like this "arrangement" where the good birds come to one's yard!!
Daryl Tessen
Appleton, WI
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