Not a mega-rarity like my earlier white-winged crossbill, but an otherwise normal Fox Sparrow with a perfectly white cap is foraging in my backyard this evening.  Haven't had a Fox sparrow in the yard all winter, so safe bet that this is a migrant.
   
  Other obs from the yard include all migratory species declining in numbers over the last 2 weeks except for dark-eyed juncos...their numbers are still steady.
   
  Noah Kahn
  Silver Spring, MD


Noah Kahn

"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot...like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech." 
Aldo Leopold (who else?)
       
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