Disheveled

Poor little Carolina Wren is getting a bit tousled by the intense wind as she clings to the branch of a small shrub and attempts to do a bit of preening.

I’m happy to have captured these images. When I first saw movement in the bramble, it was actually a White-crowned Sparrow that caught my eye. The next three photos show what appears to be an inquisitive exchange between the two birds – somewhat like, “Hey, I didn’t see you here.” “Well, I was here first!” The perspective of the final photo show shows a rare “grumpy” look on the sparrow’s beak – which my human brain just can’t ignore. Yeah, they are just birds, but they are certainly more than “birdbrains.”