Song Sparrow? (1 Viewer)

[gthang]

Certainly looks like it.

However, on the first picture, the streaks appear more reddish than they did on my Song Sparrow, suggesting that your bird might be a Fox Sparrow.

Of course, there's always something on the birds that says otherwise.

 

[Jane Turner]

This is a different bird - the breast is more streaked than spotted.

This does look like a Song Sparrow to me, or at least my distant memories of one

 

[Charles Harper]

Yes, the second bird has the streaking and central spot of the Song Sparrow, and its dark submalar stripe. From behind, of course, Fox Sparrow has an unstreaked back. I see that this particular bird is paler than any of Sibley's illustrated variations of Song Sparrow, and could I suppose be mistaken for a Savannah but for the creaminess of the malar stripe and the strongly marked crown.

 

[Larry Lade]

I agree with Jane, it looks like you have photos of two different species. The initial one still looks like a Fox Sparrow to me, and your more recent photos look like a Song Sparrow.

 

[snowyowl]

Okay, I think that this is the same bird I saw yesterday. Song sparrow?

I wouldn't want to make a guess on the original picture, it's just too dark etc. for me, but the second certainly appears to be of a Song Sparrow even thopugh it is a bit lighter in colour than the ones at my feeder. Song Sparrows do seem to be somewhat variable in dark/light plumage.
I just took another look at them and there is one out there, mixed in with the Juncos and several darker Song Sparrows, that is a bit lighter than the others.