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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:58 am
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sorry about the low-quality video - hand held.
not much I can do about the background noise.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
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Mike Collins Member
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Sounds like a Varied Thrush.
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Bowregard Member
Joined: 05 Feb 2019 Posts: 562 | TRs | Pics Location: Sammamish |
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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gb Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 6303 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:07 am
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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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Ski ><((((°>
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:14 am
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Thank you all very much!
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Goats Know Gravity's Bitch
Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 194 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:46 am
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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!
Here on this mountaintop...Woahoho...I got some wild, wild life - Talking Heads
Here on this mountaintop...Woahoho...I got some wild, wild life - Talking Heads
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:27 am
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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.
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Ski ><((((°>
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:59 am
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^ 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.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Navy salad Member
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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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Kascadia Member
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Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:19 pm
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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.
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
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