All,
My experience has been that Thrashers get very quiet and perhaps even more
secretive during the winter and that the best way to find them is tape-playing
at appropriate habitat. They will typically either respond vocally or pop up
for a second, or both. I think there may be more of them around in winter
months than perhaps people think.
Jay Keller
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Gaskill <KurtCapt87@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Dec 1, 2007 6:31 PM
To: 'BMcGovern' <bmcgovern@xxxxxxx>, LarryNTA@xxxxxxx, va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Va-bird] Brown thrasher
Bill and all,
I would amend that December statement to January - there are sufficient
Brown Thrasher Northern VA CBC reports every year to justify the species as
present until at least the beginning of January, with a higher probability
of occurrence in the eastern portion of the region.
Kurt Gaskill
-----Original Message-----
From: va-bird-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:va-bird-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of BMcGovern
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 3:38 PM
To: LarryNTA@xxxxxxx; va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Va-bird] Brown thrasher
My old copy of Peterson shows the Thrasher winter range south of a line
from Northern Neck, through Richmond, down to about Danville; and your
Fredericksburg location is just north of that line, so seeing a Thrasher
there on Dec 1st is worth noting. However, Peterson also says a few
Thrashers will winter as far north as the Great Lakes.
I think that in most years VA-Bird has no (or almost no) Northern
Virginia Thrasher reports from December through February--and that fits Kurt
Gaskill's charts for Northern Virginia:
<http://hometown.aol.com/kurtcapt87/home.htm>
http://hometown.aol.com/kurtcapt87/home.htm
Bill
----- Original Message ----
From: LarryNTA@xxxxxxx
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:21 PM
Subject: [Va-bird] Brown thrasher
Today at noon a brown thrasher was sitting on the railing of my deck. I
don't recall seeing this species here this late. Do a few winter in this
area?
Larry Kline
Fredericksburg, VA
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