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Brown Thrasher........

16 years ago

I love these birds, this one returned awhile ago. I am still awaiting his cousin the Catbird to return north, haven't seen one yet. This Thrasher was by the deck under the feeders.....

Donna

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claireplymouth z6b coastal MA
16 years ago
Very nice! I saw my first Brown Thrasher of the season on April 16, and the first catbird on May 2, so there was about a two week delay. I'm in southeast MA. Thrashers bred here last year, but I didn't see them most of the time. The catbirds, on the other hand, are in my face every day eating grape jam.

Claire
catherinet
16 years ago
Nice pics! I love brown thrashers. They are so light-hearted in their song. I have one that comes back to the same tree on our property and sings every spring. I really look forward to him.
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From the photo of the thrasher by claire, I guess the thrashers we have here in New Mexico are a different variety; ours here have a dusty brown body-no stripes, darker back & wings, but has the very distinctive orange ring in the eyes! These that began with just one pair a few years ago that foraged on the ground under our trees, now we have a couple dozen or more in our yard/area & have become very fearless around other birds as well as our four dogs! I can get right up to their nests & 'talk' to them & they show no fear of me (or the squirrel!) at all. Haven't figured out yet why the seemingly first pair built the 2-story apt. in the tree cactus!! Sure is a secure place to nest I admit! We often get a new variety of birds for awhile, then they disappear only to have another variety come; the thrashers seem to have replaced the grackles pretty much the past two years in my yard.... yet the mourning doves seem here to stay!
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Thanks! It just pleased me to see a bird that's usually very secretive suddenly come forward and enjoy itself in front of the camera. The sand and stones was an afterthought - I live in New England and it's always a pain to get a pole into the ground in between the subsurface rocks. Being on the coast, I have plenty of sand and stones. It's pouring rain now, and it must be hard for the hummers to get nectar from flowers or find insects. They're fighting over the feeder which has an umbrella over it so it's reasonably dry. Sort of like sitting on the porch with a drink watching the rain. Claire
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Konrad___far_north
16 years ago
Wow..that's a beauty!..thanks for sharing!

Konrad
kendra2003
16 years ago
Beautiful pictures! I have never seen a Brown Thrasher before.
juanital
16 years ago
Nice pics! A few weeks ago we heard what we thought was a mockingbird but the songs were somehow different. Nope was a thrasher, huh, I didn't they were a mocker type bird, always learning something new!!!
rachel_frome_ky
16 years ago
Beautiful photos of a usually wary bird! Gorgeous
calliope
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When I first moved to my old house, they were the commonest bird to find inside the house. How and why they got in......I don't know. I still have them but now they are much more well behaved and seen mostly by the thicket edge of a field.

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