This morning at the feeders my mental health sustaining birds were White-throated Sparrows. They come in two morphs (white-morph and tan morph) with a lot of individual variation. In general, older male white morphs have the brightest, most contrasting plumage and first-year female tan morphs have the least contrasting plumage. White-morphs have white eyebrow and central crown-stripe and more black in lateral crown-stripe. Tan morphs have have buffy eyebrow and central crown-stripe, more brown in lateral crown-stripe. All have white throat patch. Look for this at your feeders. Looking more deeply connects us to birds and provides wellness for us.
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