Date: 12/6/25 6:01 am From: Joseph Neal <0000078cbd583d7c-dmarc-request...> Subject: WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW songs, sung to the tune of chicken house fans: aka BIRDING WET PRAIRIE ROAD NORTH OF MAYSVILLE aka almost OKLAHOMA, almost MISSOURI
Best birding yesterday was a short stretch of Wet Prairie Road north of Maysville with a thick stand of Giant Ragweed. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS singing “You’re Wee Wee Wee …”
Songs from way out in the fields. NORTHERN CARDINALS, HARRIS’S SPARROWS and SAVANNAH SPARROWS mixed in among them.
Also more of what made yesterday such a pleasure: gorgeous Coralberry and blackberry vines mixed in with grasses. A couple of adult Bald Eagles perched together in a distant scraggly hardwood tree.
The only LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE I saw yesterday I tried to turn into a NORTHERN SHRIKE. Wouldn’t that have been fun! Also,
I never ceased to be amazed at the size of the cardinal flocks in winter. Those brilliant crests in the winter sunlight.
Here’s a link to what I submitted to eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S287481656
