JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written and issued from the woods near Natchez,
Mississippi, USA
February 9, 2009
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A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW ALL FLUFFED OUT
Nowadays around here temperatures bounce between
extremes. This week during a couple of dawn breakfasts
it was 25°F (-4°C) but on recent afternoons the
thermometer showed 75°F (24°C) and now frogs are
calling all night long. On one of our frosty mornings
earlier this week a White-throated Sparrow,
ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS, took up a perch beside my
trailer as I built my campfire and for me his demeanor
and fluffed-out feathers reflected the morning’s
hunkering-down-but-satisfied feeling, as shown at
http://www.backyardnature.net/
