Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Zonotrichia atricapilla

This beautiful bird is one we see often, but I've never gotten a really good picture until now. I was so happy to see several of them this morning and made a point of trying hard to get some nice images. From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "The large, handsome Golden-crowned Sparrow is a common bird of weedy or shrubby lowlands and city edges in winter along the Pacific coast. Though it’s familiar to many during winter, Golden-crowned Sparrows vanish for the summer into tundra and shrublands from British Columbia to Alaska, where little is known of its breeding habits. Gold-rush miners took cold comfort from this bird’s melancholy song, which seems to reflect the bleak beauty of its surroundings." Please click on the link above to learn more about this beautiful bird!