{"id":16771,"date":"2014-11-08T05:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=16771"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:55:22","slug":"white-crowned-sparrow-juvenile-on-a-wild-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/11\/08\/white-crowned-sparrow-juvenile-on-a-wild-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"White-crowned Sparrow Juvenile On A Wild Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JuvenileJuvenile White-crowned Sparrow on a wild rose – Nikon D810, f8, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
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It was nice to get out yesterday morning and photograph a few birds including this juvenile White-crowned Sparrow perched on a wild rose. I photographed a few harriers, ibis and juncos but none of the were as cooperative or in such a pretty setting.<\/p>\n

The White-crowned Sparrows are all over the place and I love hearing their soft calls<\/a>. Different subspecies across the country have clearly different songs but to me they all sound delightful to my ears.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn over the shoulder look from a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

White-crowned Sparrows are year round residents in Utah but I do see more of them in the Salt Lake Valley in the winter than I do in the warmer months.<\/p>\n

At Farmington Bay WMA there are many locations where White-crowned Sparrows can be found foraging, singing and preening as long as they have a safe place to hide if a predator comes in close.<\/p>\n

They might be just little brown birds (LBB) but I think they are delightful.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

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

It was nice to get out yesterday morning and photograph a few birds including this juvenile White-crowned Sparrow perched on a wild rose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150933,"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":[2756,4071,4104,855,4195,4327,4507,4256],"class_list":["post-16771","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-emberzine-sparrows","tag-juvenile","tag-perched","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-white-crowned-sparrow","tag-wild-rose","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