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Saturday, October 20, 2018

Saturday's Sequel: I've met my 14th bird!


This past Saturday while walking in Central Park and being memorized by the antics of a cinnamon colored squirrel (which I wrote about in Monday's post here in Blogger) I also encountered a bird type unfamiliar to me, making this my fourteenth new acquaintance in this Year of the Bird. I have since learned the creature who I noticed is a Song Sparrow and the little one can be seen in the image atop this entry where he/she is ignoring the fact that a fence had a padlock (although there seemed to be no reason for the lock — it wasn't securing anything).

If you'd like to read more about this bird type, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, among other sources (including Audubon and National Geographic) have useful information on their given web-pages.

As for yours truly, I don't feel qualified to say much about the Song Sparrow because my encounter with him/her was briefer than brief. However, if I happen to encounter this  creature again, I will discuss the creature in a subsequent blog post.

For now, my experience with sparrows in Central Park (and there are hundreds of varieties) has been with the House Sparrow as well as the White-Throated Sparrow (both seen respectively in the next images, which were taken in the park during bygone years).



A white-throated sparrow has visited my rooftop garden in the past, but house sparrows continue to be frequent visitors to my place. When I see them in Central Park, I think of E.B. White's essay, Interview With a Sparrow and when I observe them in the branches of Ailanthus Trees in my courtyard, I think of his mini-essay, Dressing Up, (a copy of it is posted below).


Sparrows are featured in all three volumes of my book series, Words In Our Beak

Moreover, interesting facts re Ailanthus Trees are included in volume three, which only recently (this past Monday) became available on Amazon!

FALL 2018 ADDENDUM: 

Hardcover versions of Volume One, Two and Three can now be found wherever books are sold.

MY BOOK SERIES


Please click here to go to my blog post that provides details as to where you can get these books. 

Additionally, I have rendered some images from these books into other formats and they are available via Fine Art America (FAA). Some of my other photographs (Black & White CollectionKaleidoscopic Images and the famous Mandarin duck who visited NYC) can also be found on my FAA pages.


ADDENDUM SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2021:

When the third volume of the hard-cover version of Words In Our Beak was released, I withdrew from promoting my former versions of Words In Our Beak. 

The very first one is an iBook and went into Apple's book store in 2015.


This was followed by an ePub version...


..that is available on Amazon and was also published in 2015.

Subsequently, Words In Our Beak's digital versions were published as a soft-cover book (with slight variations) by MagCloud in 2017.


Its press release can be read by clicking here.  [The press release does note my Kindle version of the digital Words In Our Beak, but I withdrew it from Amazon a few years ago and at this time, I do not intend to make it live again.]

Now with the release of BIRD TALES....


... I've been advised to make mention of my early versions of volume one of Words In Our Beak, they do vary ever so slightly in content from the hard-cover version of volume one.

As of this addendum, I do not intend to create digital or soft-cover versions of Words In Our Beak Volume Two or Words In Our Beak Volume Three.

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