April 1. Aransas River, 5 1/2 mi ENE Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas the Rodriguez fence. It moved at a rapid pace singing steadily, accompanied by quatrachus, warbles, and another thrush. I finally caught up with them and waited until they moved E from mesquite thicket to oak clump along driveway. The male sang from a conspicuous perch and I took the ♀ (#526) pulling the wrong barrel (1/2 load). Her mate flew across the road and sang from the Rodriguez property tree tree tree and peta - - - , steadily for 4 or 5 minutes (estimated). I waited where I had taken the ♀ and finally he returned to sing from there. I shot but didn't get him and he moved S rapidly singing peta peta from one post then the next keeping out of gun range. I finally took him with a half load (#527), shortly before 10:00. I paced the distance N to the gate at 880 yards. No thrush calls along this way as I continued to the river and thence to the house via the N bank. From the house from 11:00 until 1:00 steadily and sporadically in the afternoon I could hear song peta peta peta in the riverbank woodland due S of the house. Unmated ♂ ? April 2. Mission River at Refugio, 50 ft., Refugio Co., Texas, SUNNY, WIND FROM EAST 10 MPH. I walked along the E bank of the river upstream for 150 yards from the highway 77 bridge. Willow and other deciduous trees leafed out, to 40 ft or so in height in some cases. No thrush heard, 7:30 - 7:45.