White-crowned Sparrow
August 2012 – Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
At first I thought these were some more exotic species, but didn’t take long to realize they were the familiar White-crowned sparrow. This one was chomping on a caterpillar at about 10,000ft elevation.
White-Crowned Sparrow
May 2011 – Blacklock Point, Oregon
I’ve always thought that the White-crowned Sparrow was a lucky bird – saved from an otherwise drab existence by a few brilliant zebra stripes on the crown. If it wasn’t for that I’m not sure they’d get much attention.
This bird was busy eating seeds from some ground-cover plant on top of a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, near Blacklock Point, Oregon. He was so unconcerned by my presence that I was able to get within a few feet. In fact, I had to back-up, because my lens couldn’t focus that close!