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The very first fox sparrow I ever saw was back in April 2005. I saw him as a reddish bird flittering in bushes while I was walking in the game land. The advantage of a long telephoto lens is that it can blur out foreground, so I got a somewhat reasonable photo of him. It took ages to identify though.
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That was it for fox sparrows and me until mid-November, when one began to show up by the feeders. He seemed to prefer the early morning or dusk, so photographing him was a challenge. Adding to that challenge was his habit (as a ground feeder) of kicking up leaves and stuff during his seed search: He was constant motion while I had to take photos at a slow speed in the dim light.
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The fox sparrow is about one and a half times the size of a house sparrow. For that matter, the fox sparrow is large enough to expect him to be something other than a sparrow.
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