Every year, our Connecticut yard is filled with snow birds, including two of my favorite sparrows--American Tree Sparrow and the White Throated Sparrow. During the Christmas Bird Count in Old Lyme on December 31, Paul and I found a striking White Throated Sparrow in a thicket along a side road.
The black and white crown was vivid, along with the bright yellow right in front of the eye.
A question was asked about the black crown. We sometimes see brown crowned White Throateds and assumed they were juveniles or even females. But someone in our group said that there is a brown crowned morph, and that even though they are the exact same specie, the two morphs never interbreed. Have to think more about that.
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