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Wildlife preserves were filled with hikers seeking fresh air with a side of hermit thrush.

Some were simple but detailed, like an 1820 drawing of a hermit thrush perched on a branch.

Birders call one side of the park Thrush Ridge for the birds — wood thrush, hermit thrush, gray-cheeked thrush and more — that seem to like it there.

But we found solitude while walking for hours on trails and carriage roads; we kept quiet, listening to the liquid song of a hermit thrush from deep in the forest.

Robins, bluebirds, hermit thrushes and gray catbirds were among hard-hit types, he said.