Still not prepared to give up on the Swamp Sparrow I was back out at Reifel again this afternoon. Made a couple of passes along the west dyke trail to no avail. I might have to find a new nemesis bird. There were a couple of cooperative subjects though along the centre dyke trail. Of the many Northern Flicker currently around,
… this one stopped briefly on an old snag. Then not too far away,
… were a couple of Evening Grosbeak chowing down on the few remaining Pacific crab apple. It was difficult getting an angle on these birds through the branches.
As you can see in this shot there is a branch between the camera and the bird resulting in that faint line across the rump. Thought I had avoided this but my attention was more on focussing on the head. Sometimes you miss things like this and do not realise it until afterwards. That’s when there may be a few expletives followed by there is always next time.