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Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas, found the plates of sparrows and identified the bird I had just photographed: a Lincoln's Sparrow.
Rare in the east, more likely to be encountered in the Midwest during migration, the Lincoln's Sparrow breeds near the arctic circle and winters in thickets of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas and far into Mexico. ,
Malls are not always places of death for birds. On the day after finding the dead sparrow, I was again at a shopping mall: the Gateway Plaza in Front Royal. As we walked to the car, Lee said: "I hear a Killdeer!" the wild cry came from high in a cloudless blue sky filled with light. Finally I saw the plover, its long pointed wings silvery in the light of the setting sun. The wild cry, kill-DEE, killDEE, floated down as the bird circled the mall. Finally it flew away and disappeared over the mountains. The defiant cry grew faint with distance. I was left with the memory of a bird wild, free and intense with life.
Note: The "memories" column continues with this selection from Oct. 14, 1998.
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