[EBB Sightings] Pine Siskins and Varied Thrushes

Bingham, 

We've had them at Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands for
the last four weeks.  I don't remember seeing them up
there as consistently any time in the last three
years.

Bob Power
Oakland, CA
--- BnghmGbs at aol.com wrote:

> I live in Danville, near the So. entrance to Mt.
> Diablo.  I rarely get  Pine 
> Siskins at my feeders; occasionally one or two with
> years when I  see none.  
> At the same time, I sometimes have Varied Thrushes
> but not  usually, and when I 
> do get them it is much later in the year.  I have
> been  gone for the month of 
> Oct. and am not aware of either bird yet, but a 
> neighbor brought me the 
> bodies of two birds that hit her window, one today
> and  one Fri.  She had never 
> seen the bird before and they turned out to be  two
> young male Varied Thrushes.  
> I am wondering if with these two  eruptive species
> both being in the area if 
> there is something about the food  supply or the
> weather that might be causing 
> this.  Has anyone else seen  Varied Thrushes around
> an unusual area yet?
> Bingham Gibbs
>