{"id":60579,"date":"2019-09-30T05:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=60579"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:14:08","slug":"photographing-white-crowned-sparrows-at-farmington-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/09\/30\/photographing-white-crowned-sparrows-at-farmington-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing White-crowned Sparrows At Farmington Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdultAdult White-crowned Sparrow in early morning light – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When autumn arrives White-crowned Sparrows are one of the sparrow species that I look forward to photographing at Farmington Bay WMA each year as they move down to lower elevations.<\/p>\n

White-crowned Sparrows are year round residents in northern Utah but during their breeding season I don’t see them as often as I do the rest of the year so by the time fall makes an appearance I find myself anxious to have them in my viewfinder again.<\/p>\n

At Farmington Bay WMA I find White-crowned Sparrows perched on phrags, cattails, rabbitbrush, fences, sunflowers, trees, roses, greasewood and sage in the marshes, near Glover Pond and next to the roads.<\/p>\n

This adult White-crowned Sparrow<\/span><\/a> had been feeding on the seeds of phrags four days ago at Farmington Bay and still had a bit of fluff stuck to its bill. I like the out of focus insect flying over its head, the light and the head turn of the bird.<\/p>\n

I’m very much looking forward to photographing all of the sparrow species I find in the valley at this time of the year. They might be just little brown birds but I find them enchanting.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> 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":"

When autumn arrives White-crowned Sparrows are one of the sparrow species that I look forward to photographing at Farmington Bay WMA each year as they move down to lower elevations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161209,"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":[27,1022,697,26,356],"tags":[4004,970,4620,7801,4094,4365,4099,4104,8301,8300,4059,6428,855,4195,4095,4327,4256],"class_list":["post-60579","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-autumn","tag-fall","tag-insect","tag-marsh","tag-midge","tag-morning-light","tag-perched","tag-photograph","tag-photographing","tag-phragmites","tag-phrags","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-wetlands","tag-white-crowned-sparrow","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