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Thursday Doors- Sparrow Pole Bungalows

April 11, 2024Posted in Thursday DoorsTagged Birdhouses, Birds, Blue Sky, Douglas County, Male Birds, Nevada, pole, Portals, Sparrows, Thursday Doors, vine44 Comments

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This post is part of the Thursday Doors group hosted by Dan Antion over at No Facilities which you can click on to see other doors from around the world-https://nofacilities.com/2024/04/11/alumni-doors/

Nikon D850| Nikkor 500mm PF-e| PS CC 25.5.1

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Friday’s Feathered Friends-Golden-crowned Sparrow

January 26, 2024January 24, 2024Posted in Birding in Nevada, Friday's Feathered Friends, Nikon, PhotographyTagged Birding, Birds in the Wild, Golden Crown Sparrow, Gray cloudy Day, High ISO, Male Birds, Nature, Nikon, Sparrows, Willow49 Comments

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I last shared this Sparrow in 2015. I don’t see many of them and I only see them during the Winter migration hanging out with the White-crowned Sparrows, but sadly, never at my feeder. Last week I saw this one.

He was pretty skittish. Every time I tried getting closer he flew further away so these are pretty well cropped.

Fun Facts:

- This sparrow is one of the least known of our songbirds, particularly on its northern breeding grounds. It has been the subject of only a few laboratory and field studies, so most of what we know about it comes from scattered notes in scientific journals.
- Miners in the Yukon at the turn of the twentieth century woefully referred to the Golden-crowned Sparrow as the “no gold here” bird, because its song resembled that depressing phrase. They also interpreted its song to say “I’m so tired,” prompting them to dub the bird “Weary Willie.”
- The Golden-crowned Sparrow arrives earlier and stays longer on its California wintering grounds than almost any other bird species.
- When day length increases in the spring, the Golden-crowned Sparrow detects the change through photoreceptors (light-sensitive cells). Its body responds by putting on fat and getting an urge to migrate.
- The oldest Golden-crowned Sparrow on record was at least 10 years, 6 months old. It was caught by a bird bander in California in 1970 and released.

Fun facts gleaned from allaboutbirds.org

I hope you all have a great week-end!

Nikon D810| Nikkor 500mm PF-e| PS CC 25.3.1

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Golden Crown Sparrow

May 15, 2015May 15, 2015Posted in birding, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, SparrowsTagged Bird Photography, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Golden Crown Sparrow, Northern California, Sparrows6 Comments

I made this image last week-end early in the morning. It was quite overcast and gray most the day, and this little Sparrow was inside the canopy making the shot a bit tricky. Since my extender is broken and I still haven’t sent it in I was using my old D300s for the crop factor and I don’t like to take my ISO up any higher than 500 on that camera, so the bird was a bit dark.

I opened up the shadows and exposure a bit on the bird using the adjustment brush in Adobe’s Camera Raw after going through my normal white balance, camera, and lens calibration, and noise reduction settings in ACR. Then I opened the image in CS6 for resizing, added my watermark, and web sharpening.

Using Actions in CS6 to add the final touches this image took me less than 5 minutes to develop.

I like that! 🙂

Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 300mm| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| CS6| Tripod

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A Few Things That Make Me Smile.

February 9, 2010February 9, 2010Posted in CaliforniaTagged Birds, California, Forest, hikes, Sparrows, Woodland Friends2 Comments

The smell of damp soil after rain, the sound of the Song Sparrow in the meadow, bright green moss growing on a tree, and the smile of another hiker met along the trail.

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