This afternoon, I spent some time in the back of my yard, looking for a
small song bird that I'd earlier seen up in the trees. That was probably a
House Finch, but the leaf litter below those trees was busy. Moving in
after a Spotted Towhee was a White-throated Sparrow, both scratching around
I've had a white-thoated sparrow in my yard since last fall, but have only
seen him about 6 times. Even when the white-crowneds (not many visits from
them...I just don't have a sparrow habitat) eat on the ground, out in the
open, under the feeders, the white-throated will usually hide at the
