ML381485141

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Observation details

It was about 2:00 PM and we were on the back stretch of the Killgore Hills Winter Bird Census. I had just found a "Myrtle" Warbler and felt pretty good about the day. A favorite brush surrounded area was my next focus of attention. So I quietly moved in and started the routine pishing, hoping something would respond. In a few seconds something did indeed respond and just about bowled me over in so doing. The reddish brown back caught my eye instantly. It was so bright a color as to immediately strike me as something I had never seen before. My first fuzzy thought was Veery? then I saw it better and Brown Thrasher was my immediate decision. It was eye level and only about 10 to 15 yards away but some twigs in the little dead tree that it had hopped up into had partly obscured it. I gasped something like "Holy Cow" and called Mike. By now it had flown into a nearby juniper and disappeared. Mike arrived in time to see it again in top of the juniper where it hesitated several seconds before flying up the creek. We made several mental notes on plumage while the bird was in the tree top.

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