This is one of my earliest attempts at bird photography, taken in Baja California Sur, Mexico when we lived there. This is a Gray Thrasher, an endemic bird in Baja Sur. This was taken in a stark desert environment. When an isolated plant had berries, it truly was a “bird magnet” attracting birds of all species from far and wide. As I have taken many images since then (estimated 1 million), I am not sure this image would have even made it through my initial cull, but now that I look at it again (and reprocessed it) I kinda like it.
Gray Thrasher
Country Mexico
Location Los Barriles, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Gender Unknown
Age Adult
Activity Feeding in the Wild
- Created Timestamp12/12/2018 08:15:02
- CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark IV
- Aperture5.6
- Focal Length700
- Iso400
- Shutter Speed1/200
- Orientation1
Your pic of the Gray Thrasher certainly was worth keeping – it was one of the Honorable Mention pics in the Obscured Bird contest. The judges really appreciated the difficulty of obtaining a good focus as the bird peeked out from behind the foliage.
Cool looking bird!