Sparrow ID

Unaccountably without my bins, I snapped this with my camera’s zoom feature. That’s feature, not actually a zoom lens, unfortunately. Sure, it’s starting to look like it came out of Blow-Up, 1966, highlighting the unreliability of all representation.

But, you will pay particular attention to the shortness of the tail. And could you convince yourself you see a notch at that tail’s tip? Also, is that a suggestion of yellow on the head? Why, it’s a stubby notched tailed song sparrow in drag, of course… either that or a Savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis.

Now, back to Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills, two entirely different kinds of birds.