Brown Thrashers - The Bird
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These, the only thrashers in the eastern US, rival the Mockingbird in repertoire of borrowed songs. This one went on and on with who-knows-what songs. Arted up a bit with texture from Topaz and some blended background.
Every year we get these birds nesting in our pine trees and I usually hear their beautiful singing before I spot them. It is estimated that the brown thrasher has more than 1,100 song types, making them one of the most varied singers in the bird world. Photographed through my window.
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A curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) on the grounds of the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona.
An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood.
Wish I knew this ahead of time
These birds are really skittish when they see you. This one ran underneath my pine tree where the pair is nesting. The thrashers are very territorial birds, especially when defending their nests. I see them diving quite often onto the ground squirrels which are living in the same area.
Best viewed large, taken through my window at ground level.
Two of these beauties are hanging out in the yard daily. I have watched them catch butterflies in flight. They are very good at population control. Of course, butterfly population control is not what I had in mind when I started butterfly gardening. Between these two and the Great Crested Flycatcher that has been hanging around it's a wonder that there are any butterflies out there.
Thankfully, the butterflies are doing well. Yesterday there were three monarchs, they seem to be the favorite meal for the Flycatcher. I was not able to count the number of Zebra Longwings, they are plentiful. Two giant swallowtails a Tiger Swallowtail and several Orange Barred Sulfurs. Oh, and a Gulf Fritillary and I cannot forget the Polydamas (goldrims). There were at least four of those.
I just got my reminder to clean and fill the feeders... Time to go play.
Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.
Brown Thrasher
Taken 06-12-19
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I believe this is a Brown Thrasher. Not quite sure why he was standing there on one leg the whole time.
This Brown Thrasher spotted during a hike through the Royal Botanical Gardens Arboretum as it was singing away in the brush. Had seen it before in the same area but always too far for a picture - finally close enough this day!
(Toxostoma rufum)
Brown Thrashers have the largest repertoire of songs of all the North American birds and are able to vocalize 3000 distinct songs.
This Brown Thrasher is unafraid of me where I sit right out in the yard under my umbrella and watch the birds all the time. He comes and goes within a few feet of me. Most of the birds are very tame but some are afraid of my camera but not this
one.
I get this green bokeh many times when the evening sun is shining through my fence. You can see the fence in the bokeh. It is one of my favorite times to take pictures.
Another first sighting for me and very happy to find one on this dead tree as they rarely come out of the brush.
Exuberant singers with a loud, long series of doubled phrases with no definite beginning or end: “plant a seed, plant a seed, bury it, bury it, cover it up, cover it up, let it grow, let it grow, pull it up, pull it up, eat it, eat it.”
What a joy! Here is the link to his song: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/media-browser/...
Same tree as the Kingfisher
A Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) in Saquaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
12 December, 2017
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