[Tweeters] Varied Thrush

[Lee Rentz]

While exploring tide pools at Beach 4 in Olympic National Park on New Year’s Day, we watched a pair of Varied Thrushes repeatedly foraging on the exposed barnacle and mussel beds. They weren’t, of course, opening these hard shells, but they did seem to be feeding on invertebrates in the beds. I watched one thrush fly away toward dry land with something about two inches long and droopy hanging from its bill, but wasn’t able to identify it.