The ferns drip with cold water, the moss glows and invisible dissonances ring out in the redwood-tethered fog. The harmony is strange, and there is no melody: the chords are isolated and enisled in… ...

Scientific name: Ixoreus naeviusCharacteristics: A robin-sized bird, 9 to 10 inches long, this striking thrush has a dark slate-blue back; orange (some call it rusty-brown) throat, belly, breast ...

THIS FIRST COLUMN for 2017 was retrieved from past columns.. This will be the 50th year of the column’s existence and looking back over five decades can be enlightening. A few days before writing this ...

Howard Brunn of Corvallis photographed this varied thrush on March 21, 2009, in his front yard on Northwest 14th Street. “Varied thrush are winter visitors (mostly) to the Willamette Valley ...

The varied thrush is common in northwestern North America, especially Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. This winter, an abnormally high number of the birds were noticed by bird ...

Varied Thrush. Robins are part of the same family as the varied thrush, so it’s easy to see why someone would get them confused.And at first, they have similar coloring, sporting reddish breasts ...

Now is the time to watch for a bird that seems to only visit us here in Wisconsin in winter — the varied thrush. Its normal range is the far western part of the US and Canada.

Was it a varied thrush or was I just hoping? Outdoors Varied thrush whistle means break time THE OLYMPIAN. December 11, 2009 12:00 AM. Each day that slips by is full of projects that need to be ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - On gray mornings in winter, the haunting two-note trill of one of the Northwest’s most secretive birds pierces the chilly air. It’s the varied thrush, a cousin of the ...