Date: 1/11/25 2:40 pm From: Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Fw: Re: Robins and thrush
From everything I know, Varied Thrushes shouldn’t be around Seattle in summer. They breed in maturing or mature conifer and mixed forests in the mountains and in some lower areas as on the Olympic Peninsula. We see them every winter in our yard, and they sing up a storm in the spring. They are commonly in our yard well into April, but then they are gone, not to return until October or November, some years only when snow (interferes with ground foraging) drives them down from higher elevations. But we have seen them several times in September. and earliest ever was 23 August, latest ever 18 May.
Dennis Paulson
Seattle
> On Jan 11, 2025, at 9:36 AM, Diann MacRae via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
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> Hi, Tweets
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> I have to agree with Robert, I have never seen a varied thrush in the summer here, ever. We have them every winter until around March and then they are gone. Of course, my records are for Bothell, but that's not far from Seattle. Interesting if they are truly all around in the summer.
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> Cheers, Diann
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> Diann MacRae
> Olympic Vulture Study
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> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
> From: "Robert O'Brien via Tweeters" <tweeters...>
> To: "Blythe Horman" <blythe.horman...>
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> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Robins and thrush
> A couple of questions.
> Interesting (to me anyway) that Varied Thrushes are around Seattle in the summer? I had somehow assumed they all retired to the mountains to breed. For instance, I live SE of Portland in a mixed Deciduous/near/Old Growth Douglas Fir area and I've never seen or heard Varied Thrushes in the summer in 50 years here. Lots of them pass through or winter, especially during snowy/icy weather.. So I looked in eBird for July. There are a lot of records for the greater Seattle area in July. I don't know how to search for breeding records, although they might show up in an individual report. Very tedious to search them all,individually.. So then I tried Macaulay Bird Library where you can search for behaviors. But in this case I could not select the record area for Seattler, it would accept Washington State but not Seattle. Very tedious to search all of Washington State for Seattle where undoubtedly Varied Thrush have records of breeding in the mountains. This seems like a major defect in the systems. But perhaps I just don't know how to do it. Thanks for any help.
> Bob OBrien Portland
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> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM Blythe Horman via Tweeters <tweeters...> <mailto:<tweeters...>> wrote:
> Thanks Cindy! I’ve seen varied thrushes year round here in the Seattle area but only for the last 15 years or so. Before that, seeing them anywhere other than the mountains was rare.
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> Best,
> Blythe Horman, Lynnwood
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