Meanwhile, Back at the Yard

I've noted that I'm working from home. And will be until at least April. So I decided to put bird feeders outside my home office window. 

After returning form the unsuccessful search for the Longspur, I made this hanging platform feeder with materials left over from other projects. 

Some adjustments needed methinks ...

But that's not what this post is about.

It is about this bird. An irregular visitor to the yard.

A Swamp Sparrow.

I had gone out to our back 'quonset hut' to look for materials for the platform feeder. And on the way back I spotted "an interesting sparrow", as I told Patty as I got my bins, now defogged, and she grabbed a camera.

This would have been the Yard Bird of the Day except for ...