Some cool identifying birds images:
Please help me identify this bird. Is it a California Thrasher?
Image by emdot
7s and I were out walking in Montana de Oro today. We’d spent the better part of the time out at Point Buchon (newly opened by PG&E, on the south side of the park). But before we left MdO, we stopped at one of the beaches that is along the sandspit. You walk through mid-dunes (I forget already what this part is called — not the dunes right by the ocean, but out a bit farther). Covered in your basic chaparral. From 50 yards or so away I said, whoa, what is THAT? It was a brown, large bird but even from that far away I could see that I’d never seen one before.
One was on top of a bush, squawking. The other (its mate, probably) was scurrying across the trail going from the bush to another bush and back again. The whole time they were making noise and being rather funny — almost scrub jay-ish, tho they obviously don’t look like scrub jays at all (also, bigger than a scrub jay).
It has a brown, curved-down bill. Brown body. And likes to scurry on the path (like a quail).
I spent some time trying to identify it and I think this is a California Thrasher. 
Can anyone tell me if this is right?
Normally I would have cropped the photo. BUT, the clumps of thingies on the left-hand side is scat. HUGE huge scat (as you can see). What made that? I dunno, but I’ve got money that says it was some kind of wild cat.
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