<div dir="ltr">There's more<div>I heard from Dave Swayne off line, who can't reply through Tweeters, because he's in digest mode.</div><div>He sent me the page for Varied Thrush from the Wonderful Washington Breeding Bird Survey of a few decades ago.</div><div>I won't try to reproduce that page because I can't attach it, but will just relay the BBS conclusion for VATH. Formerly bred in the Seattle Area but does not any more. Lots of data for the obsessed if you access the WA BBS online. And, if you're not obsessed you would not even be reading this.</div><div>Of course that does not mean that NO Varied Thrushes nest in the Seattle any more. Just that the BBS did not find any decades ago when the BBS was run. </div><div>Bob OBrien</div><br><table cellpadding="0" class="gmail-cf gmail-gJ" style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:0px;width:auto;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:block"></table></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM Robert O'Brien <<a href="mailto:baro@pdx.edu">baro@pdx.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well,in my original question, I said there were lots of July records for Varied Thrush in the Seattle Area. The statement was based upon this eBIrd page.<div><a href="https://ebird.org/map/varthr?neg=true&env.minX=-133.07734673162696&env.minY=43.36481644608693&env.maxX=-108.68769829412696&env.maxY=50.96507839146144&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=on&bmo=7&emo=7&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/map/varthr?neg=true&env.minX=-133.07734673162696&env.minY=43.36481644608693&env.maxX=-108.68769829412696&env.maxY=50.96507839146144&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=on&bmo=7&emo=7&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025</a></div><div><br></div><div>This will get you to the Seattle Area but at a much reduced scale. Next: </div><div>1.You can enter Seattle into the location box upper right (this is not required but will center the map)</div><div>2' Click "Show Points Sooer" </div><div>3. Repeatedly click the plus sign (+) to enlarge the area. When you are comfortable with the size of the area around Seattle you will see a lot of observations over 'all years' but July only I'm not familiar with the geography (altitude wise?) but locals will be.</div><div>If one is patient (I wasn't) one could then click on every sighting marker which will bring up 1 or more checklists. If you then click on a checklist to open it, you can scroll down and see if the submitter mentioned anything about behavior, nesting, unusualness of the month of the sighting, etc. Most will not comment of course. As mentioned, I do not go through this tedious process.</div><div><br></div><div>Bob OBrien Portland </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>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.<div><br><div>Dennis Paulson</div><div>Seattle<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 11, 2025, at 9:36 AM, Diann MacRae via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px"><div>Hi, Tweets</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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Olympic Vulture Study<br>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM<br>
<b>From:</b> "Robert O'Brien via Tweeters" <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "Blythe Horman" <<a href="mailto:blythe.horman@gmail.com" target="_blank">blythe.horman@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] Robins and thrush</div>
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<div>A couple of questions.
<div>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.</div>
<div>Bob OBrien Portland</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM Blythe Horman via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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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