I spent about 15 minutes outside in the cold this morning playing hide and seek with this little birdie and his mate. The branches were playing havoc with my auto-focus, but I finally got a good picture of him. Check that off my bucket list. OK, all you birdie photographers, what kind of bird is this? LOL!
@kbird 61 @mrsbaldy@rosiekind@swilde@pamknowler OK, your beautiful bird photos have inspired me to go out and take a picture of a bird....now, someone tell me what it is? LOL!
@homeschoolmom It's obviously an American bird which is why I can't identify it. It is very similar to our sparrows although it has a yellow flash on it
Are you in the Northeast US? I"m not a birder, but if so I'd go with White throated sparrow. Otherwise, the website I'm linking to (Cornell University's bird site) will probably have it somewhere. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Sparrow/id
I know the range map looks mostly Canadian, but in the text they satm "These forest sparrows breed mostly across Canada, but they’re familiar winter birds across most of eastern and southern North America and California." And I did it again, cut to the question without stopping to say, Good capture! Which is why I clicked on the thumbnail and read the question to begin with!
I have been all through my bird books and oto the RSPB site and couldn't find out what this little bird was. I hadn't realised you were in America - perhaps that's why!! It looks just like our sparrow with the little yellow flash. Lovely capture!!
@tracie8266 Thanks! That's as good a guess as I could make! LOL! @rosiekind I guess that explains why your robins look different from ours! LOL! Thanks for trying! @happysnap Thanks! @therubysusan Yes, I'm in New England. And looking at some of the pics on this link, I'd say you are right. It's a white-throated sparrow. @mittens Thanks! @pamknowler I think we've determined it is a white-throated sparrow. Thanks for the help. I didn't realize that there were different bird cousins in different countries.
@homeschoolmom , I have to tell two bird stories. When I went to Kew gardens in London, I saw a British Robin and went nuts over its cuteness. I asked a groundskeeper what it was and he told me it was a robin, looking at me as if I was deprived or daft. In the gift shop, I bought a postcard showing a robin from a bemused clerk, who said, "You're the second American today who's bought that postcard."
In the Mother Goose book I had as a child, there was one verse, "Cock Robin married Jenny Wren," and after I saw a British Robin it made SO much more sense!
Second story. I was telling the Robin story to my German friend and his American girlfriend, and finished, "British robins are some sort of wren, and American robins are thrushes." "Ja," said my German friend, "and our robins are black." We all looked at him funny, and his girlfriend was about to accuse him of playing tricks on her, when I burst out laughing. The German for "raven" is "raben" and is pronounced "robin!"
@archaeofrog Thanks! I hate auto focus. I need a new camera. @linnypinny Thanks so much for the FAV! @twr Thanks! @therubysusan Hahaha! Love both stories, especially the German one. We lived in Germany for 4 years, so I understand fully. My husband was asked once if he knew where Blue Island was. No, don't know Blue Island. The guy's brother lived there. Finally, the guy said, Oh, I mean Red Island. Finally it hit my hubby that the guy meant Rhode Island, the German word for red being rot, pronounced very similar to Rhode. To this day we call RI, Blue Island. LOL!
@rosiekind I guess that explains why your robins look different from ours! LOL! Thanks for trying!
@happysnap Thanks!
@therubysusan Yes, I'm in New England. And looking at some of the pics on this link, I'd say you are right. It's a white-throated sparrow.
@mittens Thanks!
@pamknowler I think we've determined it is a white-throated sparrow. Thanks for the help. I didn't realize that there were different bird cousins in different countries.
In the Mother Goose book I had as a child, there was one verse, "Cock Robin married Jenny Wren," and after I saw a British Robin it made SO much more sense!
@linnypinny Thanks so much for the FAV!
@twr Thanks!
@therubysusan Hahaha! Love both stories, especially the German one. We lived in Germany for 4 years, so I understand fully. My husband was asked once if he knew where Blue Island was. No, don't know Blue Island. The guy's brother lived there. Finally, the guy said, Oh, I mean Red Island. Finally it hit my hubby that the guy meant Rhode Island, the German word for red being rot, pronounced very similar to Rhode. To this day we call RI, Blue Island. LOL!