song sparrow

Another FOY, it's easy this time of year... lol In another cou0le of months that won't be so easy.

Common sight during the summer season.

The vine makes the letter "S" which evidently stands for Spring Song Sparrow.

I think this may be the same song sparrow, just flitted from the brush to the top of an old fencepost. The background is sky reflected in a water reclamation pond. p.s. Just googled, and yes, there is a sub-species endemic to the salt marsh areas along the San Francisco Bay. It's the Alameda...

Song sparrows are one of the signature birds of the Hayward shoreline (two others being clapper rails and little terns). I believe the area even has a specific, endemic sub-species of song sparrows, but I don't know all the details on that.

This bird not only has the central spot on the streaked breast which you can't see here, but it has another large one on the white belly. Have never seen that. This image was better though.

Still trying to catch up on all my California photos. Eventually I'll work my way back home.

Bird 2 of my brief walk in Glen Ellen. This one was perched right by the bridge I walked over. Not all that exciting a bird, I suppose. I've certainly seen - and photographed - enough of them this year. But each one sings a different tune, which makes them endlessly enjoyable, and this shot was...

Or maybe a Fox Sparrow that decided to spend the summer in New Jersey.

I have no idea what it is.

Maybe a cleaner image?

"The Song Sparrow takes his singing very seriously. Almost invariably he presents his recital from the top of a bush or a fense post or a comparatively low tree. Always as he begins to sing he throws his head backward and points his bill at an angle of about 45 degrees , and this position...

This bird, pictured on a branch of a 2 m tall balsam fir tree was nesting in a plantation of these trees (Christmas trees) near my house in Orono, Maine.

Another of the many song sparrows I heard and/or saw at Hayward Landing that day.

From my song sparrow day at Hayward Landing (just up the bay along Hayward Shoreline). I was hoping to see something new by birding a new stretch of the shoreline, but not that day. The song sparrows were a kick, though. I should have had a tape recorder along and started a study on whether...

Song Sparrow, doing his thing.

This guy was hanging out as an early spring returnee.