Friday, November 20, 2015

One of Many Cousins

In the dark morning, someone sneaked into my backyard.   A couple of years ago I saw one up on my pine tree, but that one  never came to the feeder.   This one was brave enough to let me take a picture.


In the shade:

"Hi,  I am a Fox Sparrow.  On my chest/tummy I have triangular spots."



In the sun:

"I am a sooty colored subspecies of the Pacific Northwest.  
I have a lot of cousins.  Some in Alaska can be reddish; 
others in western mountains are slate colored."

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