Brown Thrushes aren't the prettiest to look at, but they have a fine song

[sybylla]

I have one sitting in my tree tops now, just yammering away. Loud and variable just like the orioles that roost around here.

We get them every spring but they never stay. I get the feeling the Blue Jays run them off.

The tree tops and a set of binocs is usually the closest I ever get to one, but this morning, she landed in the lawn just outside the window to hunt for breakfast.

[Maestro]

1. I do not have these in my area.

Although lately I have been enjoying the songs of the male dickcissels.

[sybylla]

2. That's a bird I don't believe comes this far north

I've never seen one around here, at any rate.

I do love the songs of spring, though. Those birds passing through make the day much more interesting than the same 6-8 birdsongs you hear over and over again in the middle of summer.

[Maestro]

3. Not a brown thrush but I did see a swainson's thrush

yesterday and the robins had been flocking in the hundreds around here in Dec-Jan, but the last one I saw was in March. The Dickcissels usually will stick to Texas right up through the mid-west then return to Central and South America for the winter.

[semillama]

4. Do you mean Brown Thrasher?

Brown Thrush isn't a name I'm familiar with.

[Inchworm]

5. I was wondering the same

Or a wood thrush.

Both have pretty songs though :)

:hi:

[semillama]

6. I did some googling and apparently Brown Thrush is a colloquial name

for Brown Thrasher.

Never heard it before, myself.