A song disappears Another Westonite has a missing bird, but this one is wild. Lydia Christoph reports that for the past two summers, the beautiful song of an unidentified bird has been coming from woods near her home. I never saw it singing. I could only hear it, every dawn and dusk and sometimes a little bit during the day. A few weeks ago, the song disappeared, and Lydia wonders what might have happened to the mysterious singer.
Thrushes are migratory in our area.
They can wander and often do, in search of better food supplies. Hermit thrushes generally spend the winter in the South while wood thrushes fly all the way to Central America to avoid the cold. It is, of course, possible the bird died. Birds may die of disease, old age or even lightning striking a tree they're on. Diana Gray of Wilton enjoyed Sir Sidney Weinstein's piece last week on names for groups of birds.