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There's been a minor irruption of Sage Thrashers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties here in So Cal, which is all to the good as they're fairly uncommon. This one can be reliably seen on the fence near the end of Davis Road, the access road to SJWA. Taken February 3, 2012.
Curve-billed Thrasher, Big Morongo Preserve in the California high desert, May 9 2009.
Curve-Billed Thrasher, Cave Creek Ranch, outside of Portal, Chiricahua Mtns, SE Arizona, Sept 11 2008.
The Chiricahuas can be divided into 3 ecologically-different bird "zones" --- desert, canyons, and mountain highlands. The area around Portal is a transition area where both canyon and desert birds can be seen, and a good place for closeup looks and good variety is at Dave Jasper's feeders on Foothills Road just before Portal. When I dropped by Dave had just come back after being gone for a week, so he apologized for the lack of birds as the feeders were kind of low, but a half-hour later all sorts of birds were there...Here's a Curve-Billed Thrasher...
Along Canyon Trail I spotted this California Thrasher, "common but difficult to see in chaparral and other dense brush", Sibley's Field Guide says. He was giving me good-looks out in-the-open...
And Dave Jasper's' feeders are one of the only places where the rarely-seen Crissal Thrasher comes out of hiding. Sibley's calls it a "secretive" bird, "difficult to see in dense mesquite and other brush along desert washes." But here it is in full-view, on a very photogenic perch...This photo alone is enough for me to thank Dave for allowing the public access to his feeders.
A Crissal Thrasher comes out of hiding to visit Dave Jasper's feeders in the Big Thicket just outside of Portal, gateway to the Chiricahua Mountains in southeast Arizona, June 2008.
There's been a minor irruption of Sage Thrashers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties here in So Cal, which is all to the good as they're fairly uncommon. This one can be reliably seen on the fence near the end of Davis Road, the access road to SJWA. Taken February 3, 2012.
There's been a minor irruption of Sage Thrashers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties here in So Cal, which is all to the good as they're fairly uncommon. This one can be reliably seen on the fence near the end of Davis Road, the access road to SJWA. Taken February 3, 2012.
There's been a minor irruption of Sage Thrashers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties here in So Cal, which is all to the good as they're fairly uncommon. This one can be reliably seen on the fence near the end of Davis Road, the access road to SJWA. Taken February 3, 2012.
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