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Le Conte's thrashers are pale, long-legged, fast-running wraiths of desert scrubland and washes in arid regions of California, Arizona, and Nevada. They are a prized sighting for visiting birdwatchers and can be very difficult to find despite the open habitat they favor. I was pleased to find the bird above singing vigorously in a dry wash in Joshua Tree National Park, in southern California. Other birds were in the alkali scrublands of the Owens Valley, just east of Bishop, California; they were photographed just after dawn, in the shadow of the White Mountains just to the east (lending a bluish cast to the images). |
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