The Hills Have Eyes<\/a> <\/em>(the 1977 version directed by Wes Craven was filmed in Joshua Tree), think curve-billed thrasher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I just heard a commotion in front of my office window – sounded like a small boy angrily kicking leaves around – and when I opened the shades to peek, it was a energetic bird with an incongruously long bill … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desert-creatures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I think this is the bird who hunts for lizards and subsequently spears them on the spikes of the yuccas to save them for later. So if you ever see a limp lizard body speared on a plant spike, don’t think The Hills Have Eyes<\/a> <\/em>(the 1977 version directed by Wes Craven was filmed in Joshua Tree), think curve-billed thrasher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"