Participant Photo: Hermit Thrush enjoying suet

This was a first sighting for me of the Hermit Thrush. He has been enjoying my homemade cranberry suet cake for the past three days. He occasionally feeds on the ground beneath it where he is promptly displaced by a female cardinal. It doesn’t deter him for long though as he keeps coming back for more. I was happy that he showed up during my Feederwatch count the next day. I submitted a short video to a site for ID and Hermit Thrush won the ID over the Swainson’s Thrush due to the brown on tail and constant flicking of wings.