Some kind of small Lark ??

[tamrock]

I took my dogs out today and some times I see these small birds on this same fence many times and not all over field. I have see them in the high plains sage country of the west like Wyoming from time to time also. They kind of look like a Meadow Lark, but smaller and just a little bigger then a common sparrow. Today I got a picture of it before it flew away, as they don't like company lingering around, especially dogs.

 

[Old Dude]

Don't know what it is but you took a nice pic of it. I like the contrast between the sky and everything else.

 

[tamrock]

Don't know what it is but you took a nice pic of it. I like the contrast between the sky and everything else.

Thanks! OD/PA. In the background what looks like clouds out of focus are really the snow covered Rockies. They got dumped on last week as we did down below. Pretty nice day out today, but very muddy out on the trails. I understand an other snowstorm may be again coming this next Thursday. After that a lot of the low ground turns into wetlands and then you'll start seeing many different kinds of birds coming around. In the permanent wetland areas these Red-wing black birds move in amongst the Cattails and sing all day and they've already started doing that. Sometime after they build they're nest and hatch they're eggs, some of those Red-wing black birds will bombard your head when you get to close to the cattails were they nest.

 

[joee5]

Tham mountains or clouds in the background?

 

[G.I.B.]

Looks like a Finch.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Looks like a Brewer's Sparrow. Nice pic, Tam.
Jim

 

[old digger]

It kind of looks like a female Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)




Male Horned Lark

 

[tamrock]

I think that is the bird OD/MT... I failed to mention I have seen them with those tuft feathers up their head like that before.

 

[tamrock]

Tham mountains or clouds in the background?

They are the Colorado front range mountains.