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This posting reminded me of a recent unusual (for us) visitor here. We don't ever seem to see thrushes apart from Robins here in our garden in Halifax so I've no ID expertise, but was surprised to see what was clearly a thrush two mornings ago hopping out on to the blacktop from under our car. This is where our solitary Song Sparrow normally parades looking for fallen seeds. I watched this thrush for only ~2 minutes, got a good look, but have not seen it since. By the time I'd retrieved a camera and Sibley to check the patterning in detail it had disappeared, so there's no hope of positively IDing it now. It looked closest to a Hermit Thrush in Sibley, definitely not a Wood Thrush, while the spots on the upper breast were dark and prominent so not a Veery, but that still leaves several other possible contenders in play. Question for birders: all of the Sibley distribution maps suggest that none of the NS thrushes overwinter here, but this must be an over-generalization. Based on known overwintering records, can anyone suggest which species this was likely to have been -- would a Hermit Thrush actually fit the bill? Steve Chocolate Lake, Hfx ******************************* Quoting Dennis Garratt <dccalden@googlemail.com>: > That's great, but where is it exactly? > Cheers - Dennis > On 9-Feb-10, at 12:29 PM, V. Redden wrote: > >> The Varied Thrush is doing just fine in Avonport as of Sunday Feb 7. >> >> Virginia, Port Howe
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