Lonely At The Top

Here's a little White-throated Sparrow I happened to see in September..Enjoy!

 

I spotted this little beauty while walking in the park. The parks people where cleaning up and pruning the trees and they had made a pile of branches...This little one was sitting on top of the pile!! :)

 

"Crisp facial markings make the White-throated Sparrow an attractive bird as well as a hopping, flying anatomy lesson. There’s the black eyestripe, the white crown and supercilium, the yellow lores, the white throat bordered by a black whisker, or malar stripe. They’re also a great entrée into the world of birdsong, with their pretty, wavering whistle of Oh-sweet-canada. These forest sparrows breed mostly across Canada, but they’re familiar winter birds across most of eastern and southern North America and California."

 

"Although they look nothing alike and aren’t particularly closely related, the White-throated Sparrow and the Dark-eyed Junco occasionally mate and produce hybrids. The resulting offspring look like grayish, dully marked White-throated Sparrows with white outer tail feathers."

 

"The White-throated Sparrow is polymorphic."

 

This photo is NOT CROPPED!

 

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