Grasshopper Sparrow

Once upon a time, Crumby was paying perhaps the first of many spring visits to Camp Bowie, a big national guard facility located southeast of semi-beautiful Brownwood, Texas.  Somewhere on that vast post was then a grassy sward that featured a great many grasshoppers sparrows.  An average ornithologist like Crumby had only to stop his great vehicle, roll down the window and easily observe the grasshopper sparrows singing their semi-beautiful songs from exposed grass stalk perches.  Initially Crumby was miffed by those grasshopper sparrows because they apparently chose that particular grassy sward based on habitat structure rather than plant species composition.  Indeed, the dominant grass species was KR bluestem.  Crumby felt like grasshopper sparrows needed to be in a habitat dominated by native tall and mid grasses.  Yet Crumby got over it because that place reliably had grasshopper sparrows.

Now Crumby has just traveled through his 67th birthday still upon Planet Earth instead of in Planet Earth.  Yet this turn around Ogma Sunface is starting out badly.  Very badly.  So badly that the best event of  Crumby's new year so far is this crumby picture of a grasshopper sparrow.  However crumby, Crumby was glad to get this picture, in winter, in mostly native coastal prairie.