Today’s #BirdOfTheDay, and the theme is #50ShadesOfGrey, birds with grey plumage. The Alt theme is #Fledglings, any newly fledged bird. Saw this Sage Thrasher (aka Mountain Mockingbird) on a hike earlier this week. It must have been lost, because there was no sagebrush for miles around.
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Medium sized bird on a dead branch, against a background of blue sky. the bird is white with black speckles all over its chest and back. Its wing feathers are dark grey outlined in white. Its beak is yellow tipped with black, and it has yellow eyes.
Atlantic Birding · 1 · 1d ago