chunky brown bird

snakeguybill

19 years ago

I should have known... this one posed just outside of my dining room window, on the porch rail, last summer.

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Day_By_Day
19 years ago
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)?
muddy_sneakers
19 years ago
I agree, Carolina Wren. Very personable little birds.
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Your welcome. They are a common migrant here and one that I quickly learned to differentiate from Song Sparrows and other sparrows in my area. I think they are one of the prettiest sparrows and their song is very beautiful as well. They breed in wet meadows in the Cascades west of where I live and are a migrant through my yard in spring and fall.
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
19 years ago
And LOUD! ;-)
laurabs
19 years ago
Hehehe! I have seen those birds in our yard. Since they are loud, maybe those are the ones that sometimes wake me up in the morning, even though the windows are closed. I literally lift my head some mornings and say, "Shut up!"

Doesn't work though.

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