October 06, 2004
White's Thrush (+ picture)
Just a quick note to accompany a photo - thank god for JL, who sent me a text to alert me to a White's Thrush about to be released at Kergord this lunchtime. It'd apparently been found feeding on someone's lawn (why not mine?!), and then caught when it flew into their window... Set to be released in Shetland's best woodland habitat, it seemed alert enough in the hand, but when released it sat motionless on the leaf litter, and shortly went to sleep.
Decision was quickly made to take it into care, so after a very short period of liberty it was rushed away to convalesce. Nevertheless, what an amazing bird. As usual, both the coolpix and the eos were at home, so I had to make do with a Kodak fun-snap thing. However, there will be some stunning shots of this bird taken by others, so make sure you hunt them out. What a beauty.
I live in Australia but recently dreamt that I
found the nest of White's Thrushin the moutains of Scotland !!!!!
we had a WHITES THRUSH in shrubry in our front yard for three days. May 19,2o and 21st 2006 Beaumont, Texas
Posted by: novelle trapasso at May 22, 2006 06:24 PM