Curve Billed Thrasher

Curve Billed Thrasher

I happened to be out behind the walls in the little wash to take some pictures of prickly pear flowers that are now opening. On my way back to the house, a curve billed thrasher perched on a mesquite stump a few yards away. Since I had the telephoto lens on the camera, I wasted no time and put the perched bird in the camera’s crosshairs.

The bird cooperated with me for about three camera shots before swooping away on its regular route around the back wash. We have a lot of these birds that hang around the area and two of them have a nest in the cholla in front of the house by the RV drive. We’re hoping to get some pix of the thrasher chicks after they hatch.

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