With a song in my heart.  #Wordless Wednesday  #Song Sparrow on a gray day.

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
This entry was posted in #WildlifeWednesday, #Wordless Wednesday, birds, nature and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

43 Responses to With a song in my heart.  #Wordless Wednesday  #Song Sparrow on a gray day.

  1. rajkkhoja says:
    June 5, 2024 at 5:02 am

    So beautiful sparrow. Nice looking these.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  2. Laurie says:
    June 5, 2024 at 7:50 am

    Great photo of the song sparrow singing his little heart out!

    Like

    Reply
  3. bushboy says:
    June 5, 2024 at 8:20 am

    Sing little bird sing

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  4. Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    June 5, 2024 at 12:10 pm

    Pretty girl, Linda. She looks happy with her own song 😀

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  5. dawnkinster says:
    June 5, 2024 at 12:14 pm

    I love to catch a bird in full song! It’s not every day that we get it captured!

    I wanted to ask you if you wanted to come up to Kensington? I don’t know how far away it is for you, but I’d meet you there, or you are welcome to come here and we’d go down together. It’s about 30 minutes south of me.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 5, 2024 at 2:53 pm

      I do too Dawn – I must’ve taken a dozen pictures of this Song Sparrow singing and only one showed it in full warble; it was giving the Red-winged Blackbirds some competition that morning. Thank you for the offer to meet up at Kensington – I would love to go, but I will be honest and tell you I don’t like to drive the expressway. There are options using surface streets, which I might try sometime, but not in construction season. I know that makes me a bit of a weenie saying that. For now, this is why I stick closer to home going to Lake Erie Metropark (also Willow, Lower Huron and Oakwoods Metroparks but I don’t find them very interesting).

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply
      • dawnkinster says:
        June 5, 2024 at 10:35 pm

        I get it! I’m not a fan of freeways either.

        Liked by 1 person

      • Linda Schaub says:
        June 5, 2024 at 10:52 pm

        Glad I’m not the only one. A truck driver with a big rig was playing chicken while merging and my friend and I nearly flipped over and since then I’m no fan. 🙂 My commute to downtown Detroit was easy – I hopped on the bus at the end of my street, went right downtown, so I really never had to deal with driving on the expressway nor in ice/snow … thus a weenie!

        Liked by 1 person

  6. Ally Bean says:
    June 5, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    Great title, great photo to go with.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  7. singlikewildflowers says:
    June 5, 2024 at 1:36 pm

    Sparrow looks like she got caught singing!! Great shots.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  8. AnnMarie R stevens says:
    June 6, 2024 at 8:06 pm

    Miss linda…………………………………….I just love walking in the morning and listening to all of the birds singing and I always whistle back to them…………………………………my joy in life!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  9. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    June 7, 2024 at 12:47 am

    Little birds (especially in the early mornings) sing with such joy and heartfelt enthusiasm. Their love for life radiates! 😊

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 7, 2024 at 7:37 pm

      Tom, I also love listening to them and they often go non-stop without missing a beat. There used to be a Robin in the neighborhood and I’d match it by trying to whistle note for note, but I could not keep up!

      Like

      Reply
  10. Shelley says:
    June 7, 2024 at 5:53 am

    I love the photo set, nice captures. The last one seemed as though the bird paused and looked your way to say, “Um…where’s the applause?”

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  11. Rebecca says:
    June 7, 2024 at 5:56 pm

    Singing for the joy of it! Nice group of photos, Linda.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  12. TD says:
    June 7, 2024 at 9:50 pm

    Hi Linda, You had me going to all about birds website to hear is sing! It was cute!! A had a giggle.

    I always thought that the sparrows here were house sparrows because that’s what Mom called them. But those pictures on the website didn’t seem like what I have here. There are 38 types of sparrows here supposedly!

    So next time I see a sparrow in my yard, I will take out my binoculars to look closer and listen to its song to recognize what type we have.

    It was fun seeing your pictures of the song sparrow having a glorious day despite the gloomy weather that day!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 8, 2024 at 7:58 pm

      TD – to be honest, I also have just called all brown sparrows a “house sparrow” or a “sparrow” because I also have them around the house and I don’t usually hear them singing like this. I can’t say that I knew there was a Song Sparrow per se until Barbara posted pictures of them on her blog and said she heard them singing, so I did the same thing as you did and went to a bird site to hear them sing – it is very pretty and was very loud! Its voice carried through the marsh giving the Red-winged Blackbirds a run for their money. That is a lot of types of sparrows and I looked and Michigan only has seven types of sparrows! Good luck identifying them with the binoculars!

      This little bird was singing its heart out and on such a gray and gloomy day no less!

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply
  13. Zazzy says:
    June 7, 2024 at 10:27 pm

    A lovely little sparrow! One of my favorite birds, to be sure.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  14. Barbara Rodgers says:
    June 9, 2024 at 8:00 am

    Beautiful photos, Linda! I ❤️ song sparrows!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  15. indianeskitchen says:
    June 15, 2024 at 11:50 am

    Great shot of the sparrow singing Linda. One landed on my window sill today just 2 feet from me. He was looking inside at me and my messy remodeling project. My orioles have gone and the sparrows were eating the oranges and grape jelly. Nope not buying oranges and jelly for sparrows when they get all the sunflower seeds they want. I pulled the oriole feeders for the year.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 15, 2024 at 7:17 pm

      Thank you Diane – this song sparrow was really going to town with its singing. You could hear it all over the marsh! I am really not a fan of sparrows either. They have gotten into my outside blinds and built nests and I had to have protective metal mesh put over the point where they entered and went up into the blind and built nests. I could hear them and their babies chirping and tweeting. They will overtake other birds homes/nest boxes too. I don’t blame you for not supplying the sparrows with oranges and jelly. The sparrows make a beeline to eat the sunflower seeds I put out for the birds at the Park. They line up on the garbage cans at the Pavilion area ready to pounce on those seeds before the other birds get to them.

      Like

      Reply

Leave a comment