Golden-crowned Sparrow: October 3, 2022

We didn't recognize our first Golden-crowned Sparrows.  I hadn't done enough research and didn't realize that they were a species we would see often on Vancouver Island.

On our walk along Rithet's trail we saw many, but, I reluctantly admit, did not recognize them.  I took a lot of photos, but they were all far away and mostly in the shadows.  It was only after getting to know them later

that I went back to the first photos and discovered the birds I had glanced at and thought maybe female House Sparrow were

the same bird we had searched for and didn't find in the small town of Morse, Saskatchewan, in March 2016.