6 March 08
Golden-crowned Sparrow
The zonotricchia sparrows will be gone, soon. I heard golden-crowns this morning at home, rare among the white-crowns. Then two popped up outside the window.
I reached for my pentel waterbrush, realized that the reason it wasn’t flowing much water was because of a red plastic ring around the middle (no doubt there are instructions about this but they’re in Japanese), took off the ring and squeezed, and a huge sploosh of black ink came out. I rinsed the brush and then did this quick doodle of the sparrow’s head.
The sparrows were quite cooperative and one of them was coming in to full breeding plumage. The tail’s a bit short: I ran out of paper. Hope these birds make it safely to their breeding grounds in Alaska…
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Shorter tail notwithstanding, it’s a lovely and cute sparrow!