 |
|
Hermit Thrush visitor Scenes in The
Hobbit aside,
thrushes are usually shy, so I was surprised when this Hermit Thrush
showed up in the yard Friday afternoon. Actually, I had forgotten
that we had a Our chicken waterer keeps our domesticated flock
happy and healthy as they enjoy a similar life, remembering to leave us
an egg now and then in thanks.
Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment. |
|
I feel overly compelled to not that maybe it's not a hermit thrush? Maybe it's a hybrid, newfangled, semi-hermit, just-a-little-shy thrush?
Thanks for your lovely photos! Any special song to listen for, that you can describe?
Have you been to see The Hobbit? I don't want to go, mainly because I don't want my own imagining of it to be confused!
Mom --- I keep wavering about seeing the movie, but I think I'm going to hold firm and keep the imaginings I have solid. Pretty funny that we're both staying away from the movie for the same reason.
The robin The Secret Garden is a British robin, which is very different from the American Robin --- not a thrush at all. That's why I thought about The Hobbit --- that thrush is probably a Song Thrush, which is in the same family as our robin and as our woodland thrushes.
The wood thrush is the one I hear singing much more than the Hermit Thrush (who mostly leaves this area for the summer, staying only at very high elevations). All of our woodland thrushes, though, have similar songs, a bit like elf-flutes.
The Wood Thrush has my favorite song of all birds!
Birds of a feather flock together
/ok really stopping now, promise, really