Bird Watching: Rare Bird Alert: Redwing, Turdus iliacus, in Seward, Alaska, 1 by Grasmussen

Grasmussen wrote:
The Dusky Thrush is with a flock of American Robins wintering over in Anchorage. Finding it involves driving around looking for Robins feeding on frozen berries still on trees. I stopped to check out a couple of Robins this afternoon, 1/18/2011. I took two pictures of a Robin in a frost covered cherry tree, when the Dusky Thrush and several Robins landed on the driveway in front of me. They ate cherries which had fallen to the ground. I turned the camera on rapid fire and took 21 pictures, before they flew off, to the east. All of the pictures are time stamped exactly 2:00 PM. The Dusky Thrush had been in front of me less than one minute. We were never able to relocate the Dusky Thrush, or any of the half dozen Robins seen with it. I finaly got some acceptable pictures.