Fox sparrow
This is a fox sparrow, “sooty” subspecies. A first for me! There doesn’t seem much that’s foxy about it, but settlers would have run into the “red” variation first, which is more common in the north and east of North America.
This is a fox sparrow, “sooty” subspecies. A first for me! There doesn’t seem much that’s foxy about it, but settlers would have run into the “red” variation first, which is more common in the north and east of North America.