| Comments: Top four photos taken in Cass County, Indiana in December. I emerged from a winter hike in the woods to a snowy, overgreen field, drawn there by a cacophony of tinkling notes. I soon found the field to be full of American Tree Sparrows; I'd estimate their numbers to have been easily 300 birds. These attractive sparrows nest across northern Canada and Alaska, and spend their winters throughout most of the U.S. They winter also here in the Mid-Atlantic, but we in Maryland are at the southern part of their range in the East. I'd never seen such great numbers of them before this day! |
