{"id":147971,"date":"2025-06-07T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=147971"},"modified":"2025-06-07T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T10:38:17","slug":"lark-sparrow-on-a-hackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/06\/07\/lark-sparrow-on-a-hackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lark Sparrow On A Hackberry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I\u2019m sharing another Lark Sparrow photo I took last month while visiting Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/a> in south-central Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\"LarkLark Sparrow on a hackberry in Oklahoma \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f11, 1\/800, ISO 500, -0.3 EV, Canon RF 800mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The beautiful harlequin pattern on this sparrow\u2019s face definitely catches my interest. But I appreciate all sparrows a lot.<\/p>\n

I’m fairly certain this sparrow was perched on a hackberry, though I can’t say with confidence which one. It\u2019s a botanical guessing game with at least four native hackberries growing in Oklahoma. Could be Celtis laevigata<\/em>, the sugar hackberry, or Celtis occidentalis<\/em>, the common one. There’s nothing especially common about its stubborn refusal to be easily identified. Nature does love a good mystery, and hackberries seem determined to keep theirs.<\/p>\n

At least the sparrow doesn\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n

The rocky slope in the background provided a nice backdrop to highlight the sparrow\u2019s simple beauty.<\/p>\n

I was delighted to find so many Lark Sparrows at the refuge in several types of habitat.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Today I\u2019m sharing another Lark Sparrow photo I took last month while visiting Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in south-central Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,16439,1465,13973,16438],"tags":[4004,4372,10480,7837,1539,16442,4104,855,4195,165],"class_list":["post-147971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-comanche-county","category-lark-sparrows","category-oklahoma","category-wichita-mountains-wildlife-refuge","tag-adult","tag-chondestes-grammacus","tag-hackberries","tag-hackberry","tag-lark-sparrow","tag-mixed-grass-prairie","tag-perched","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-spring"],"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