In very light drizzle and temperature about 70, the dog and I took a walk at one of our favorite spots, North Branch Nature Center. It was shorts and t-shirt weather, perhaps the last for a while.
Ginger has little interest in the birds along the trail but the chipmunks and squirrels are another story.
Sparrows are often the Rodney Dangerfield’s of my birding world – they just don’t get any respect. However, fed up with the antics of fall warblers, it’s fun to see some of the sparrows sitting a bit still for identification and perhaps photos.
I came across this Lincoln’s Sparrow the other day and just wanted to share how lovely some of these little brown jobs can be:
