Mystery Singers

Two birds that have stumped me.

 I assume this is a sparrow, though I never see it, at least not while it is singing. It is in the grass across the road from the field of saskatoons. Whatever this bird is, there are several that sing almost constantly throughout the day.

 

Thanks to the knowledgeable guys at the SaskBirds group, this bird has now been identified as a Sprague's Pipit. They sing from the air, not the grass, though to me this really sounded like the grass, but given I was across the road, perhaps the direction of sound was deceptive.

This next bird, on the other hand, was right in the berries. I thought it was a Clay-coloured until it started to sing, and then I had no idea. However, Stan Shadick said it is a Clay-coloured Sparrow, just with a different song. Highly interesting. I always have this idea that birds don't have many options on how they sing, but every now and then, apparently one does.

This is a sparrow I took when the camera was accidentally set to take a smaller resolution photo. I think it is a Baird's, which would make it a new bird for me. However, here again I have been corrected. It appears it is a Vesper Sparrow, which is a disappointment as I have a much better photo of a Vesper on my Seeing Yellow post a few days ago.