{"id":171762,"date":"2026-03-13T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=171762"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:33:31","slug":"brown-thrasher-in-a-thicket-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2026\/03\/13\/brown-thrasher-in-a-thicket-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Thrasher In A Thicket At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdultAdult Brown Thrasher in a thicket at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge \u2013 Canon R7, beanbag, f9, 1\/800, ISO 640, Canon RF 100-500mm at 472mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Brown Thrashers are like that. They seem to treat thickets like their personal security system. If there\u2019s a tangle of branches within fifty yards, that\u2019s exactly where they\u2019ll decide to be.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

When I have a Brown Thrasher<\/span><\/a> in my viewfinder, I’m a happy woman.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Check here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Brown Thrasher photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14150,13973,13974],"tags":[4004,14190,13984,14152,821,6725,4613,735,14151],"class_list":["post-171762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-brown-thrashers","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-adult","tag-bottomland-hardwood-forest","tag-bottomlands","tag-brown-thrasher","tag-mimids-2","tag-thicket","tag-thrasher","tag-thrashers","tag-toxostoma-rufum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/brown-thrasher-thicket-mia-mcpherson-0148.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-IGm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":104808,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/08\/07\/sage-thrasher-in-riparian-habitat\/","url_meta":{"origin":171762,"position":0},"title":"Sage Thrasher In Riparian Habitat","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Towards the end of last month I found a Sage Thrasher high in the mountains in riparian habitat which surprised me. 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