{"id":13726,"date":"2014-01-21T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=13726"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:18:05","slug":"white-crowned-sparrow-perched-on-a-frosty-shrub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/01\/21\/white-crowned-sparrow-perched-on-a-frosty-shrub\/","title":{"rendered":"White-crowned Sparrow perched on a frosty shrub"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FemaleFemale White-crowned Sparrow perched on a frosty shrub – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 640, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I like the setting contained in this image with a frost covered branches of a shrub with reddish bark that the female White-crowned Sparrow perched on close to the entrance to Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area.<\/p>\n

While processing the image I noticed that the “white-crown” of this particular bird isn’t as white as I normally see in White-crowned Sparrows. After doing some research I believe this might be a female because on BNA<\/span><\/a> it says that females can have a more grayish crown than the males.<\/p>\n

I am not certain about that though so any help concerning the gender of the bird would be appreciated.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my White-crowned Sparrow photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like the setting contained in this image with a frost covered branches of a shrub with reddish bark that the White-crowned Sparrow perched on close to the entrance to Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1022,697,26,356],"tags":[4004,4070,3983,368,4094,4104,6188,855,4195,4327,373,4256],"class_list":["post-13726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","category-white-crowned-sparrows","tag-adult","tag-female","tag-frost","tag-frosty","tag-marsh","tag-perched","tag-shrub","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-white-crowned-sparrow","tag-winter","tag-zonotrichia-leucophrys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t