faerye , 1 month ago

Mom insisted I take a bunch of photos of this Little Brown Jobber by the Deschutes River this evening, while I was uncharacteristically blasé and said, “are we sure it’s too small to be a female red-winged blackbird?”

The prancing little chap proved to be a Savannah Sparrow, which I should have recognized but which is a lifer for Mom! And unusual for the location! She earned this one! 🤗

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The little bird perching among dead grass looking thoughtfully away from us, too serious to pose for pictures. Even more complexities of brown stripes are visible on its head and back, like the brown-on-brown styling of a 70s van that thought it was very groovy.
The bird shows us its back: the long shirting-stripes of its little cape-collar of covert feathers, the tidy dark tips of its folded wings. It looks back coyly over its shoulder as if aware it looks strikingly like one of its identification pictures in eBird’s ID app!