Adult 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. In Utah, I didn’t see them at all 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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Very nice! I have never seen one, I believe they have been seen in southern Utah. They look like the Crissal Thrasher in size and behavior, who are more solid gray and russet than the Brown Thrasher. My friend in Ivins has a Crissal that lives in his yard, I love to go over and watch the birds and try for photos. The Brown seems more speckled and striped, very pretty markings.
Brown Thrashers are like that! They are quite elusive and if not exactly shy, then cautious.