๐จ #BirdButt Challenge!! ๐จ
I call Lori's thrush butt, and raise a thrasher butt! ๐
Have a sweet #ThrasherThursday peeps! ๐ค๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ
#Mimidae ๐ชถ
#BirdLovers
That's my backlit Curve-billed Thrasher named Kirk Douglas for the cool cleft in his floofy and speckled breast and belly.
Well, a Curve-billed Thrasher does have a #speckled belly...
...but I haven't met one standing on #oneleg yet. ๐ฆ๐ฟ
Maybe this'll be the #ThrasherThursday... ๐ค๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ
๐ธ Toxostoma curvirostre, my pal 'Kirk Douglas' ๐ชถ
#Mimidae
#BirdOfTheDay
#Photography
#BirdLovers
#Eck
The mealworm is the official food for the curve-billed thrasher
#ThrasherThursday
Curve-billed thrasher eating a mealworm
The Curve-billed Thrasher is a spunky, grayish-brown desert bird known for its long, curved beak, bright orange eyes, and beautiful songs. I totally copied that.
๐ TIL that there are like seven subspecies of Curve-billed Thrashers...๐ค
...and I stopped right there. I mean, jeeze...๐ฟ
๐ Have a sweet #ThrasherThursday! ๐ซถ
#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Take it easy...I'll get you a mealworm! Is what you think when a Curve-billed Thrasher glares right at you.
TFW... the #BirdOfTheDay theme for #eyecontact...
...falls on #ThrasherThursday! ๐ซ
๐ธ Curve-billed Thrasher ๐ชถ๐ฟ
#Mimidae
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Curve-billed Thrashers perched on a Saguaro
Throwback #ThrasherThursday ๐ชถ
A pair of Curve-billed Thrashers atop a Saguaro cactus ๐ต
Even his crop is borbing...as he made some R2-D2 sound...a Curve-billed Thrasher, a rather round-ish one at that, poses in profile facing the other way from all those pictures of him I already shared. Made you look. Cactus bokeh is an acquired taste, I'm told...ymmv.
"Cuitlacoche Piquicurvo"...๐ฆ๐ต
...is my fav, but other colloquial names for the Curve-billed Thrasher include Brownsville or Palmer's Thrasher, Bow-billed Thrasher, and Cactus Thrasher.
Now you know. ๐ค๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ #ThrasherThursday ๐ชถ
๐ธ T. curvirostre, aka Curve-billed borb ๐ฟ
#Mimidae
#BorbAlert
#Photography
Brown thrasher in winter in Ontario, Canada.
The last thing one expects to see in the middle of winter is a brown thrasher. But indeed we came upon this one huddling in a bush. #ThrasherThursday #bird #birding #birdphotography ๐ชถ #Ontario #Canada #winter #wildlife
Brown bird with a long, curve beak
#ThrasherThursday!
and
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in a mesquite tree
at the Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary
See the #thirdeyelid
half-way up
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
You can see a few of the leaves still on the tree to identify the mesquite. The eye is in focus. Much of the rest of the bird is not.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
meets
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in the big mesquite tree
in my backyard
has the #thirdeyelid up ๐ฒ
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
He or she lives in one of the other nearby habitat piles
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
on one of the habitat piles
in my backyard
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
A close-up profile of my pal, the Curve-billed Thrasher looking like he's seen some things...
๐ฟMFW...I have just returned from a trip down to the Walmart in town for socks, a 20x20x1 vent filter, some dot 4 brake fluid, and 30 minutes of wandering through what I assume Hell looks like...
#ThrasherThursday ๐ชถ
Brown bird with a really intense expression on his or her face
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher in the big mesquite tree in my backyard
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
Looking back at you over the left shoulder
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
on the table
in my backyard
with pomegranates
Look๐ close๐ and see pomegranate #gunk
on the beak
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
The lower part of the bird is obscured by the large mesquite branch
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
meets
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in the big mesquite tree
in my backyard
has the #thirdeyelid up๐ฒ
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
Great googly moogly, the eyes on a Curve-billed Thrasher, especially when you get them both in frame, are something to behold...this birb has run, literally, run across my back yard (yes, it's all rocks) to stop at the edge of the patio, raise its bill high and look at me inquisitively like "where's the mealworms, bub?" Zen.
It just hits different...
...when a Curve-billed Thrasher 'looks down his nose' at you. ๐ซ
๐ฟ Enjoy the judgement on #ThrasherThursday! ๐ค๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ
๐ธ Toxostoma curvirostre ๐ชถ
#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Looking at you with the right eye
Look๐ at the intense look in the eye!
Curve-billed #thrasher
#ThrasherThursday!
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
Has a large curved beak
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in the big mesquite tree
in my backyard
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
Another look from 'Kirk Douglas'...the Curve-billed Thrasher, not the guy in "Spartacus"...backlit on a branch.
Virtue is not photogenic.
~Kirk Douglas
๐๏ธ ...however, #ThrasherThursday is. ๐ฟ
#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Birding
That MUST be Kirk Douglas again. How many Curve-billed Thrashers do you know with a breast cleft like that? Again, I made that term up, afaik. I also like the trippy bokeh in the background here. Zen birding.
'Kirk Douglas' making a comeback for #ThrasherThursday!
IYKYK! ๐ค๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ
#Mimidae ๐ชถ
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
Backlit and glaring down his long bill, 'Kirk Douglas' the Curve-billed Thrasher shows you his attitude and his breast cleft. I made that term up, afaik. Can you tell I'm catching up on my Thrasher edits??
Did I mention I named him 'Kirk Douglas'...? ๐ซ
๐๏ธ
๐ธ Toxostoma curvirostre, my pal ๐ชถ๐ฟ
#ThrasherThursday
#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#LookingAtYou
#Photography
That's right 111. Some days if it weren't for Thrashers, I'd have no luck at all. I'm calling this one Kirk Douglas, for that weird cleft in the breast plumage, but in this frame I enjoyed catching him blinking in the sun up in his Joshua Tree.
Just keep scrolling if you've already seen a *blinking Thrasher today...
*you know what I meant
๐๏ธ
๐ธ Curve-billed Thrasher #111
#ThrasherThursday ๐ชถ๐ฟ
Brown/gray bird with spots on the chest
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in the big mesquite tree
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
My pal the Curve-billed Thrasher gives me the eye and leans into a gust of Mojave Desert wind while clamped onto my RV gate. We don't own an RV, the gate came with the fence.
It might be #ThrasherThursday...
...but I'm already leaning into #FeatheredFriday!! ๐ชถ
Taking Friday off to go look for desert bighorn sheep! ๐ฅฐ
๐๏ธ Have a wonderful weekend! ๐ฟโ๏ธ
๐ธ Curve-billed Thrasher
#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
The birds eat the prickly pears and spread the seeds around via their Poop (feces)
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
on a prickly pear #cactus
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
#fruit
Standing on the patio table
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
#ThrasherThursday!
Scruffy curve-billed #thrasher
has the #thirdeyelid up
#bird #birdphotography ๐ชถ
#nictitans
She's all molty and I love her! A fierce hunched-over look from my molting pal the Curve-billed Thrasher in the shade of my rock-filled backyard says it all, and it's a great opportunity to admire her curved bill while you imagine huge dino-sized Thrasher chasing you through your nightmares... you can't un-imagine it now. Zen. ;~p
Dinosaur vibes...๐ชถ
"...call me 'McMolty-face'...one more time... ๐ฅฐ
๐ธ Toxostoma curvirostre, clever girrrl...๐ฟ
#ThrasherThursday
#Mimidae
#LookingAtYou
#Photography
#BirdLovers