The exceptionally hot 16 August 2020—with an official temperature of 98 degrees—brought three Swainson’s Thrushes out of the shade of the forest surrounding our home. We enjoyed thrushes singing from the woods all summer. Swainson’s Thrushes normally do not visit bird feeders. But these birds drank and bathed in the birdbath. The second image is of a very young thrush banded on 11 August 2020. Note the heavy molt and the teardrop spots on the bird’s shoulders and wings.
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