Oh Those Yellow Eyes

One more post on the Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) and, about those incredible piercing bright yellow eyes. As a hatchling the Brown Thrasher has blue eyes, as the bird grows the eyes change to ashen and then on to the yellow that you see in my photos of adult Brown Thrashers.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.