Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: white-crowned

While I wait all winter for the crocuses to open, Joan waits for the White-Crowned Sparrows to arrive. And cheers right up. There's some clues there about our preferences and interests in that paragraph, methinks. Beautiful songful birds; they'll be with us for a few days on their way north. We may see 'em again come fall.

If you live most anywhere on the North American continent, the White-Crowned Sparrow is a fairly common bird for either the winter or summer. If you live most places on the west coast, they're resident all year round. Where I live, they show up for a few days each spring, and are special.

Promised you another White-Crown! ========== A DSLR will let you bang out a lot of photographs quickly. For 366 Snaps a year ago I took 156 photographs, total, of two birds. The whole effort, shot through my office window, took me less than three minutes. Then I spent a lot more time figuring out which of many quite-similar photographs I liked best, so I could post that one. Quite a contrast from the previous day's effort , actually. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 156 Title of " roll :" White-Crowned Sparrow [I apparently ignored the blackbird] Other photos taken on 5/6/2012: The Daily Flower Census--30 rather arty pix with the Nikon 1--found the tulips fading and a newly opened flowering quince (just like this year, for yesterday). I also shot a handful of cat pix--ours, and the neighbors'.