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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 4:58 am 
sorry about the low-quality video - hand held. not much I can do about the background noise.

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 5:35 am 
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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 6:00 am 
Sounds like a Varied Thrush.

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 6:10 am 
Not much to go on but if the color is orange and roughly the size of a Robyn I tend to agree with Varied Thrush. Based solely on the color and call.

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 9:07 am 
Hesman wrote:
Varied Thrush
yes. I've not heard one yet this year, but they are often in old growth forest and occasionally get into alpine areas - not rocky - but alpine.

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 9:14 am 
Thank you all very much! up.gif

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 10:46 am 
My friends and I have been doing an after work hike every week this spring up on I-90. We have heard these haunting bird calls every night starting up just before dusk. We have been wondering what bird makes them. Thanks for posting this, now I know! chickenleg.gif

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 11:27 am 
I love hearing the thrushes when I'm out in the wilds, which I almost always only hear, never see. I look forward to the varied thrush's single note trill "tuneups" in early spring in the lowlands. But my very favorites are the thrushes of higher elevations - and I've yet to be able to tell them apart in the wild - the hermit thrush, and Swainson's thrush:
I remember my first camp at Lake Constance, in the early evening a pair began calling to each other and the flute-like trills seemed to echo off the rocks. I had no idea what they were, and it was so beautiful I got all verklempt - thought I'd died and gone to heaven. wub.gif

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PostThu Jul 02, 2020 11:59 am 
^ Swainson's Thrushes are in great abundance at low elevations. You just need to get away from city and into some forest. Pretty sure you can hear them down at Seahurst Park in Burien, if I recall correctly.

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PostFri Jul 03, 2020 12:07 pm 
I hear Swainson's Thrushes all over (including my home near Woodinville), but have never seen one. Easy to identify by the quick solo "chirp" that it frequently makes.

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PostFri Jul 03, 2020 12:19 pm 
Navy salad wrote:
I hear Swainson's Thrushes all over (including my home near Woodinville), but have never seen one. Easy to identify by the quick solo "chirp" that it frequently makes.
We're in the Taylor/Tiger mountain corridor (south of Issy) and hear them frequently. I did not realize until listening to the recording that they were also responsible for the "drip" note, glad to know. On to the next mystery.

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