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[Illia]

Varied Thrush - Fruit eater, sapsucker?


Honestly we've got lots of Thrushes out there and all they ever do is turn over mounds of moss to get at the bugs and seeds underneath.

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

 



Hawk~

We only are asked to report Crows and Jays I believe, here. I called about a dead crow last summer and the person was on vacation. The person who answered said just wrap it and dump it. The dead crow was gone when I went back outside. The number is
(206) 205-3883
last year I was referred to:
(206) 205-4394 probably d/t the vacation.

That bird is a Varied Thrush. Spends summers in the mtns. Comes down in the winter.

Imp

Oh yes it is!!!   I have been nervous myself cause my cats have come in with birds, and I'm not sure if they killed it or if it dropped dead!!   I have found a few dead in the back pasture, when we first moved here, I am always causious about a dead bird. On a side note, my sister was diagnosed with West Nile 2 yrs ago,  nasty stuff and the docs didn't have clue!! took almost 2 weeks to figure it out!! She works for bovine vets who actually brought the suggestion up, when they went to see her in the hospital!! I'm telln ya, send me to the Vet!!   LOL!
No MD for me!!!

That's a Varied Thrush, which is in the same genus as the American Robin- fruit eaters, rather than nectar drinkers like Orioles. The Orioles (Bullocks, unless they've changed the name again, I lose track) don't show up until very late April or early May.

At least it was a hawk and not something that could have been scarier. And sorry to hear West Nile is as concerning there as it is here. We don't have thrushes here as far as I know - we've got lots of house sparrows, tons of finches, blue birds (and scrub jays - which everyone here wants to say are blue birds) and the occasional seagull and herron.
Oh, and of course the raptors...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

opps and I don't know how to use spell check!! lol

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Happy Monday Everyone...

I hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy that beautiful weather we had the past few days.

I was enjoying the sun and making the best of trying to fix a serious break down on my junkin truck. Just minding my own business when all of the sudden I felt something hit my neck and then the instant STING ! ! ! DANG IT JIM ! ! ! ! Dang Yellow jacket. Since theplantain isn't much good this time of year I had to go in the house and get the sting away.
I would rather get 10 honey stings than one yellow jacket.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK it's just me and 2 lurkers. pop in and say HI. I don't bite really ! ! !

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Howdy O IMPish one

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

I was enjoying the sun and making the best of trying to fix a serious break down on my junkin truck. Just minding my own business when all of the sudden  I felt something hit my neck and then the instant STING ! ! !  DANG IT JIM ! ! ! !  Dang Yellow jacket. Since theplantain isn't much good this time of year I had to go   in the house and get the sting away.
I would rather get 10 honey stings than one yellow jacket.


 

Gotta hurt - sorry about that! And gotta love 'DANG IT JIM'!!!
Super hate yellow jackets...

 

[Imp]

Howdy O IMPish one

O'imp

like I'm an irish imp

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

That's a Varied Thrush, which is in the same genus as the American Robin- fruit eaters, rather than nectar drinkers like Orioles. The Orioles (Bullocks, unless they've changed the name again, I lose track) don't show up until very late April or early May.

I wish I lived closer. You know the things about flora and fauna that I want to learn

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Varied Thrush - Fruit eater, sapsucker?


Honestly we've got lots of Thrushes out there and all they ever do is turn over mounds of moss to get at the bugs and seeds underneath.

Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttattus), probably; they're one of two birds in my garden which are almost as effective rototillers as chickens (the other is the Rufus Sided Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, and I hope you appreciate the work it took to type that). Varied Thrushes (ah, I see they've moved it out of genus Turdus; it's now Ixoreus naevius) are seriously into salal and evergreen huckleberry and madrona berries, although they eat their share of insects, too.

The Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) isn't a thrush, it's a woodpecker. It's the one that makes little pits in neat rows on fruit trees (and Cascara; I suspect that was its most important precontact food source), and keeps the hummingbirds fed. It's just one size up from the Hairy woodpecker, and I'm out of juice for latin binomials, sorry, and half the size of a Red Shafted Flicker.

OK, going to bed now, the latin used up my braining for this evening.