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Brown Thrasher and Thingy

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Went to the zoo today, and hung out in the aviary. As is, perhaps, inevitable, I waited for twenty minutes, poised, until finally--FINALLY!--the object of my attention, a truly spectacular yellow-headed blackbird, came strolling out of the bushes to beat up an insolent Inca dove. I raised the camera, brought it into focus, took aim...and the battery died. Thirty species of desert birds (and a number of school children that I didn't realize were behind the bushes) were treated to a blistering stream of profanity, and I slunk home, defeated.

This has nothing much to do with this image, but I wanted to complain to SOMEBODY. This is a curve-billed brown thrasher, of which I took a number of photos while waiting for the yellow-headed blackbird to wander by, and is probably part of the reason I ran out of juice at the critical moment. But they're kinda neat lookin' birds anyhow.
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The medal is so hot! :+fav: