Fox Sparrow Sunday
Well, Sunday was a free day since we came home early from the tour. It was an incredible 60 degrees in the Twin Cities in the morning, so what should I do with that free time--finish up an article that's due Monday for a friend who will be nameless or go birding...hmmm...birding....article...which to choose?
I went birding of course! And got some kick arse digiscoped photos of fox sparrows:
I ended up at the Minnesota Valley NWR. Oooooooo. Ahhhhhhhh. I love the above photo of the fox sparrow with the tiny morsel of food with a bit of dirt in its bill. How do these guys find anything edible?
There were at least six sparrows mixed in with a huge flock of juncos. All were a bit cagey, but after me standing still for a bit, got used to my presence. The fox sparrows were constantly kicking with their feet to move the leaves and other natural debris to get a s tasty seeds beneath.
For a brown bird, these sparrows really are very pretty and very striking. Well, I better get to work on finishing that article due Monday.
I went birding of course! And got some kick arse digiscoped photos of fox sparrows:
I ended up at the Minnesota Valley NWR. Oooooooo. Ahhhhhhhh. I love the above photo of the fox sparrow with the tiny morsel of food with a bit of dirt in its bill. How do these guys find anything edible?
There were at least six sparrows mixed in with a huge flock of juncos. All were a bit cagey, but after me standing still for a bit, got used to my presence. The fox sparrows were constantly kicking with their feet to move the leaves and other natural debris to get a s tasty seeds beneath.
For a brown bird, these sparrows really are very pretty and very striking. Well, I better get to work on finishing that article due Monday.
Labels: digiscoping
posted by birdchick at 10:36 PM
4 Comments:
wow what a gorgeous bird. never seen them before! thanks
-ca
There were 6 Fox Sparrows scratching under my feeders in New Hope this morning. You must have sent them my way!
Fox Sparrows absolutely ROCK!
Oooh, another bee-u-ti-ful sparrow! Gotta love them brown birds, striking in a very classy way, not gaudy and cheap like red, blue, or yellow birds.
I had my first yard Fox Sparrow this year. I still remember finding my first one years ago - I thought, "There is something really weird about that Song Sparrow..." then went on to make the ID by myself. Life Birds you ID on your own are so much sweeter than those pointed out to you by others.
People have asked me what my "spark bird" was - the species that got me intested in birding. I can't really pick out one, but I count my active birding years (as opposed to the years of being a passive bird feeder) from the winter of '93-94, when I decided to stop calling all the little brown birds "some kind of sparrow" and sort them out. Maybe that's why I love sparrows so much.
~Kathi, requesting more sparrow photos
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