Another Visitor Traveling Through

Yesterday afternoon, a brief sighting, but today a confirmed sighting of a Fox Sparrow on our nearest feeder. They are around our area all summer but we rarely have them in our yard. Seems as though we often see them in late summer - early fall for a day or two. They do have an incredibly beautiful song, which some people might find odd. A lot of people tend to think that sparrows only "chip chip chip" like the house sparrows many of us saw as we were growing up in the lower 48. But here in Alaska, some of the most beautiful songs we hear in the summer come from sparrows, Golden-crowned sparrow (whose song should be the State Birdsong), White-crowned sparrow, the song sparrow, the ubiquitous call of the savannah sparrow when you're out on the Kenai River Flats, and Lincoln sparrow. Fox Sparrow too, not heard so much by me personally, but it's out there - and beautiful.