driveway art: song sparrow

[asakiyume]

We have some sunny days, and I finished the job I was working on, so I drew a song sparrow. The song sparrow is found throughout most of North America, "continuous from the Aleutians to the eastern United States," says Cornell Ornithology. They're small everywhere bird with a lovely song. Both their song and their plumage varies across the continent.







Scientific name "Melospiza melodia." You can hear samples of their songs here. (The ones around here sound most like the fourth recording down.)

Comments

[asakiyume]

Lovely song from the Bewick's wren! Someone on Mastodon posted a marsh wren singing--that was also a beautiful song.

We get dark-eyed juncos here, but only in the winter. The towhees we have are Eastern towhees--but I've only seen one once. It's similar to the spotted towhee though! The white-crowned sparrow is so pretty! The one I see here that's pretty like that is the white-throated sparrow--maybe in your area too?

[light_of_summer]

Wellllll, the map on allaboutbirds.org says that we do get nonbreeding White-Throated Sparrows, here, but I don't think I've ever spotted one that I recognized. I may have heard their song, though—the recording that I just played sounded a bit familiar.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯