I thought I saw a puddy-tat! I did see a puddy-tat.
The white-crowned sparrow male emitted a sharp call over and over as he perched on the top of a corn stalk. I couldn’t figure out what was disturbing him, although my neighbor was cutting his grass, so I though that might be it. These sparrows spend a lot of time on the ground, so I though they might have been disturbed when the mower started. I crept closer and closer with my camera, taking photo after photo of him. I finally took one step too close and he flew away.
As I stood their watching him fly into a nearby tree, a tiger-striped neighbor’s cat with a fat face, strolled out from the corn row. Then I knew what had disturbed my feathered friend!
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