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Don Wallace
Sequim, WA, United States
A very rare bird to sight, only five sighting have been recorded since 1921, but there are many more, they just go unnoticed. All the orange feathers are replaced with white feathers.
Week 13: Thrushes
Where did the orange go? Still a Varied Thrush
I live in Dexter OR. I was able to get several photos in my back yard. Looked like a Varied Thrush, with visits here. But was stunned that it had white where the orange should have been. very cool.
I have had one in my yard in Gig Harbor, WA. It is so pretty.
Found this White Morphed Varied Thrush going thru the alder chips in my our garden. It’s feeding is different from the orange variety, seems a little more aggressive in its digging for bugs. Only the one as far as we can tell. Does not feed or care about other birds. Very skittish
Oh yes, we live in Port Angele, Washington
I’ve just spotted a white varied thrush in our yard. My first ever and I had to look it up!
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
I saw one this morning in Hood River, OR. Very cold and snowy and lots of varied thrush at my birdbath and on the ground. 01/18/2024
I also have a photo of this bird sitting next to an orange varied thrush at the birdbath.
I saw what might be the same individual that Nancy Garcia saw also in Hood River Oregon, two days after her sighting.
Just spotted one of these in my backyard feeding with robins and normally colored varied thrushes and cedar wax wings. And this is in bend oregon
On 2-3-24 spotted a black and white varied thrush morph under pole feeder in my backyard in Bend Oregon. It was among a group of normally colored varied thrushes. While thrush are not flocking birds, these were attracted to the intense feeding activity of a flock of winter robins and cedar waxwings feeding on the juniper berries and then mobbing the watering stations. I examined the morph with my binoculars to get a good and detailed look before it left the yard. So the identification is correct.
White morph spotted in our yard in Garden Bay, British Columbia the last couple days. First time seeing this beautiful bird
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