Friday, October 31, 2025

Varied THRUSH continuing today at Litchfield Villa north low slope area. Good Halloween representative 🤗

Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) (1)
- Reported Oct 31, 2025 07:21 by Ashley Pichon
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282157352
- Comments: "Continuing at original pin"


Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) (1)
- Reported Oct 31, 2025 09:19 by Emily Diamond
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282165314
- Comments: "Celebrity sighting continues near original pin: 40.6668294,-73.9744760. For the first 20 minutes it was foraging in the woodland around the semi-degraded paved trail. Then it flew back to the lawn area and rejoined a group of robins feeding on fruit in a tree there."

Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) (1)
- Reported Oct 31, 2025 08:05 by Forrest Wickman
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282168860
- Comments: "Continuing vagrant, and no longer a “seen only” 🙂 When I arrived it had been seen most recently on the lawn across the Litchfield Villa driveway, slightly further south from its usual spots, moving with a flock of fellow thrushes (robins and Hermits), before flushing up into the fruiting trees. I spotted it a couple of times in those trees, but we kept losing it, before I heard a call I was pretty sure I recognized from studying up the other day—a quick, stuttering “pipitit,” the second to last call in Merlin—and sure enough, when I looked to the the area on the ground where I had heard the call, there it was. Unfortunately I was not recording at the time, but more photos available. Happy Halloween Bird to all who celebrate."


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