Missing birds

[Russell Thomas]

Where are the ovenbirds? Where are the thrushes? I haven't heard any in Nelson this summer. Usually, "teacher, teacher, teacher" is heard all day long.

Russ Thomas

[Deborah de Peyster]

They were very vocal this spring and summer on the carriage trails through Castle in the Clouds!  Both thrushes and ovenbirds were active in the woods on the way up a variety of 4,000 footers this summer just below tree line.  

Debbie de Peyster 

On Aug 22, 2025, at 5:43 PM, Russell Thomas <russin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Where are the ovenbirds? Where are the thrushes? I haven't heard any in Nelson this summer. Usually, "teacher, teacher, teacher" is heard all day long.

Russ Thomas

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[Pam Weeks]

We had many oven birds heard from our yard in Auburn, NH, as well as many along the Rockingham Rail Trail between the traffic circle in Manchester and Depot Road in Auburn, but that was spring and early summer. 

I was sitting on my porch on Sunday, and to my great surprise, a thrush of some kind landed in the spruce tree at the end of the porch just 6' away from me. We were both quite surprised, and it flew away before I could get beyond "spotted chest and brownish."

Our great entertainment right now is the family group of 3 female turkeys and 6 quickly growing poults who love scrounging beneath our feeders (yes, they come in at dusk every night!) They  are now so comfortable that the group hangs out on the front lawn for hours on end.

I did see a Northern Water Thrush on our HOA common land (65 acres laced with trails along a beaver swamp) last week.

Pam Weeks

Auburn, NH

[Bill Chaisson]

We had both ovenbirds and thrushes in the Danbury/Wilmot area through the summer. Veery and hermit thrush are most common but a few wood thrushes here and there as well. Ovenbirds were heard pretty much anywhere I went (and I walk my dog all over).

Perhaps you have local predators taking a toll. All three, ovenbird, veery, and hermit thrush, are ground nesters.

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W.P. Chaisson

1227 U.S. Route 4

Danbury, New Hampshire 03230

607-220-7425

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM Russell Thomas <russin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Where are the ovenbirds? Where are the thrushes? I haven't heard any in Nelson this summer. Usually, "teacher, teacher, teacher" is heard all day long.

Russ Thomas

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