We have a new bird!

[conuly]

I believe it is a brown thrasher. Google says they're not frequent feeder birds, but they like mealworms and I put out dried mealworms, so that'd do it.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

We have brown thrashers here. Mine like to hang out around the feeders and sometimes eat from them.

[zhelana]

That is the state bird of Georgia! :)

[spiralsheep]

Here to post the third comment in a row about your birb. I hope you get some seranades in exchange for those mealworms (and baby birb gets fed). :D

[ioplokon]

Friends in Quebec have mentioned seeing/hearing a lot of new birds this week, so should be prime time to encounter some less usual species.

[pwcorgigirl]

I would lean toward kudzu as the source of the purple honey due to recipes for kudzu flower jelly mentioning a faint grape flavor. It could be that some hives of bees simply become kudzu specialists when necessary, even when that's not their preferred flowers.

Brown thrasher are awesome. You often won't see them in a pile of leaves until they start kicking them up while searching for bugs.

[conuly]

Yummy bugs!