Spring Perch
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Spring Perch
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Fine Art
Description
This is a white-throated sparrow. Clues to its identity include the small white throat patch, the yellow in front of the eye, and the rich reddish-brown on the shoulder and wing. Some white-throated sparrows have bold stripes of white and black on the head, while others (like this one) have stripes of tan and dark brown. People used to think that the tan-striped birds were young ones, but that’s not necessarily true. About half of all adult white-throated sparrows, both males and females, are tan-striped for life.Wild birds are good at finding shelter. Those that raise their young inside holes in trees, such as woodpeckers and bluebirds, often sleep in such cavities at night, at all times of year. Other kinds of birds find protected spots inside dense foliage in trees, shrubs or vines. They may perch close to the trunk on the downwind side. Birds that live out in open fields or shores may simply hunker down where they are, facing into the wind. During stormy weather birds usually go to the kinds of spots where they sleep at night, or make an extra effort to find an even more sheltered place.
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February 24th, 2018
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