May 3, 2014 notes about our backyard Hermit Thrush

On Sat, May 3, I wrote this info down in my Field Notes notebook, but I don't think that I recorded it at JotHut.

At 10:47 a.m., I observed a Hermit Thrush foraging on our back lawn, near the middle oval flower bed, and it used the "shaky leg" foraging technique.

When a HETH forages on the lawn or leaf litter, it will sometimes vertically vibrate one leg that, I assume, is done to flush insects from the ground, so that the HETH can snatch the insects out of the air.

The leg vibration is barely noticeable, and it requires focused observation because it seems that most of the time, this shaky leg foraging technique is not used. Maybe it depends upon how much insect activity is already occurring.