{"id":9942,"date":"2021-04-19T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:07:38","slug":"a-gathering-of-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=9942","title":{"rendered":"A Gathering of Rare Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Bob Sparrow<\/p>\n

As Suzanne\u2019s blog last week exemplified, we typically try to comment on things that have broad appeal to our audience \u2013 the Masters, Covid, March Madness, St. Patty\u2019s Day<\/strong>, etc.\u00a0 But with this ugly \u2018House Arrest\u2019 still hanging on, we\u2019re left to fend for ourselves at home as best we can.\u00a0 And \u2018best we can\u2019<\/strong> at our house last week was defined as having Brother Jack and wife, Sharon in from the Central Coast<\/strong> and Sister Suzanne and husband Al in from Arizona<\/strong>, as well as some of our kids and grandkids gathering at our house for . . . well, just for fun and just because we can!<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that there was a wee bit of imbibing going on over the last few days, which is to say that I not only had difficulty trying to create an interesting blog, much less coordinating my lest-than-nimble fingers to put word to document.\u00a0 But I had the wherewithal to take some photos over the weekend, so as any good birdwatcher would do, I\u2019m posting my best photos of these \u2018rare birds in action\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The Mexican Hooded Sparrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Irish Imbibing Sparrows<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Shark Fin Watson Sparrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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Young Sparrows leaving nest<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Toasting Camouflage Sparrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Parrothead Soaring Sparrow Sisters<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Mush-Beaked Sparrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Rust-Throated Warbling Sparrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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If what they say is true, that a picture is worth a thousand words, I\u2019ve just provided you with an 8,000-word<\/strong> thesis.\u00a0 Hope you enjoyed.\u00a0 I did . . . I think!<\/p>\n

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by Bob Sparrow As Suzanne\u2019s blog last week exemplified, we typically try to comment on things that have broad appeal to our audience \u2013 the Masters, Covid, March Madness, St. Patty\u2019s Day, etc.\u00a0 But with this ugly \u2018House Arrest\u2019 still … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[936],"tags":[3549,3551,431,3550],"class_list":["post-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-bird-watchers","tag-family-reunion","tag-march-madness","tag-masters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Doby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aN0-2Am","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}