{"id":145725,"date":"2023-10-30T06:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=145725"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:12:18","slug":"white-crowned-sparrow-eating-fragrant-sumac-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/white-crowned-sparrow-eating-fragrant-sumac-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"White-crowned Sparrow Eating Fragrant Sumac Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus a couple of other songbirds I found in the area.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning while looking for birds I did a lot of driving with little to show for it. Once again, White-crowned Sparrows were the most abundant birds I found and even they were hard to come by. This juvenile was buried in a fragrant sumac bush while eating its fruits (drupes) and this is the clearest shot I got of ‘him’.<\/p>\n

The good news is that there seems to be a lot of sumac fruit in the area. Sumac fruits are an important winter food for birds and small mammals and if not eaten they often remain on the plant until spring.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 1250, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

There was a single Dark-eyed Junco flitting around with the sparrows but the junco simply refused to come in close. This photo has been cropped significantly (and it shows) but it’s my first halfway decent junco photo of the year.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 1250, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

The only other songbird I saw in the area was a single Spotted Towhee who stayed even further away than the junco and taunted me with his jaunty pose.<\/p>\n

It was a disappointing, frustrating morning. Its saving grace was that the weather was cold and beautiful, I was in a remote and largely wild area and I only saw one other vehicle in the three hours I was there. The hermit in me loved that aspect of my morning.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Plus a couple of other songbirds I found in the area. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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