I had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours birding this morning and headed to the north side of town and Lake Jackson. I spent most of my time at Faulk Drive landing because of the large number of sparrows encountered. I ended up with 7 sparrow spp, namely White-crowned, White-throated, Field, Song, Swamp, Savannah and Chipping. The White-crowned obliged for a few digiscope pictures but most of the others refused to sit still for more than a couple of seconds. Other species included Common Yellowthroat, Myrtle Warbler, Prairie Warbler, lots of Tree Swallows, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a Baltimore Oriole, several House Wrens and Eastern Phoebes. I was hoping to search the edge of the lake for Le Conte's Sparrows but the trail was flooded.

I thought it interesting that this WCSP had a couple of adult median crown stripe feathers molting through already.

White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys

Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis