Adult Brown Thrasher in a thicket at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, OklahomaAdult Brown Thrasher in a thicket at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge – Canon R7, beanbag, f9, 1/800, ISO 640, Canon RF 100-500mm at 472mm, natural light

Normally I like my subjects out in the open, but yesterday this Brown Thrasher preferred hanging out in a roadside thicket at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge.

Brown Thrashers are like that. They seem to treat thickets like their personal security system. If there’s a tangle of branches within fifty yards, that’s exactly where they’ll decide to be.

I don’t have nearly as many Brown Thrasher photos as I would like to have in my galleries. I didn’t see them at all in Utah and here they are skulky, keeping to gardens, thickets, hedges, and dense forest edges.

When I have a Brown Thrasher in my viewfinder, I’m a happy woman.

Life is good.

Mia

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