the white-crowned sparrow sings
this is a photgraph from wikipedia that i played with. and regarding that song, the WCSs have regional dialects, sometimes drawing from a VERY small region, so in fact if you live anywhere other than my back yard, they might sound a little different.
also, regarding their coming and going, they don't actually go very far. they hang out all summer at the shore of the bay, where it never gets as warm as it occasionally can here only a mile inland.
also, regarding their coming and going, they don't actually go very far. they hang out all summer at the shore of the bay, where it never gets as warm as it occasionally can here only a mile inland.
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posted by lotusgreen at 4:00 PM
4 Comments:
Hopi burrthday...let the jinnius flow where it will. The Chaffinches here
in Blighty speak with many different tongues too. Interesting!
minnie thanks, and i'm sorry that i must tell you that your pentameter is missing some of its feet!
;^)
Happy Birthday! Critter visitors are a good way to weigh what's happening very locally to your environment. Grosbeaks last summer (first time in years), none this summer. As a child summer nights were punctuated by "whip-poor-will", a song I haven't heard in years. Makes you wonder- was it the three houses they squeezed into the cul-de-sac? Or just one important tree that came down in a storm? Summer was unusually hot & dry this year...maybe that put off a few visitors...
i've been aware of trememdous species change both here in my yard and at the bay in the last 20 years. i'm certain much of it is due to habitat loss, but also possibly, like in my yard, because some have claimed it as territory and crowded others out.
check out my galleries (of other people's photos) chronicaling this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotusgreen/galleries/
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