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Top of Climb Going to Bickleton (yay watermelon!)

On my way to Bickleton on the plateau called Horse Heaven

Finally saw a Brewer's Sparrow (my first visit to Bickleton, Merlin heard one, and was pretty sure, but that won't do for a lifer. "Yes that noise came from a brown sparrowish dot bipping around" didn't cut it.) Unfortunately this is a horrid photo - and the other one I got was even worse. (This has no edit but crop). That grey (and more importantly not-streaked) chest and those face markings (as opposed to House Sparrow) and the small pinkish (compared to the Vesper Sparrow larger and pinker) beak seem like good indicators. The Vesper sparrows were more obvious on all my Bickleton trips, which might in part be because the Vesper Sparrow acts more obvious, flying into trees when startled rather than hunkering down in grass like most sparrows (and singing a whole lot too).

Per allaboutbirds.org, "Brewer’s Sparrows are at first glance so subtly marked that they’ve been called the “bird without a field mark.” These streaky, gray-brown sparrows are notable for their reliance on sagebrush breeding habitat, and their plumage is elegantly tuned to their muted, gray-green home. They’re the most abundant bird across the vast sagebrush steppe, and their long, trilling songs are a signature sound of the landscape. "