Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush ... the birds for themselves. "For some people, it turns into a lifestyle,” Nolan Clements, a member of the Oregon Birding ...

Michael Sanchez had traveled from Vancouver, Washington to northwest Oregon last week ... how it even got here. The bird, which is widely believed to be a blue rock thrush, is a native of Europe ...

The affable birds nest in shallow burrows in the ground and are some of the first birds to return to Glacier each spring, along with the varied thrush, which have arrived as well.