Occasionally I have to remind myself that some of the more common species deserve some love too. Today I’ll attempt to provide some for the Song Sparrow.
I found this one yesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains. As I approached a fence line I spooked a small group of Song Sparrows that had been taking cover in the brush near the wire of the fence. Most of them flew off right when I was turning my pickup off but this one defiantly stood ‘his’ ground. I got quite a few photos of him in this droopy-wing pose, a pose I’ve always liked.
I suppose the wire behind the bird is unfortunate but at least it isn’t barbed wire.
When he eventually took off I caught him in a takeoff posture I like, despite the cluttered setting. Pretty good reflexes for an old geezer like me.
But he didn’t go far. He landed on the wire a few feet further down the fence line and posed from there for a few seconds. before rejoining his buddies that had already flown off and landed in a small tree behind the fence. This setting is significantly less cluttered than the previous one.
While I was processing this photo, the pin feather just emerging from its sheath at the bottom of his wing caught my attention. I enjoy little details like that.
This wire so closely resembles the wire of the tomato cages in my vegetable garden, I’ll admit that my eye keeps expecting to see red tomatoes behind the bird.
It may be that I’ve spent too much time in my garden this summer. Or chowed down on too many BLT’s.
Ron
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