A Sparrow And A Little More

I used to think of all birds as nothing but brown. Brown was boring. Brown birds were something I would never care much about. I thought this way because all of the birds I noticed looked brown. Those birds I saw were probably house sparrows.

But then as I began to be interested in nature I saw something remarkable. It was a flash of yellow in the air in front of me. That yellow turned out to be a bird called an American goldfinch. Ever since that moment birds were never boring for me anymore, not even those brown little sparrows.

And as I looked closer at those sparrows, I discovered something very strange. Sure they were brown, but that was not all. Those little house sparrows were actually very colorful for someone who took the time to actually pay attention. This male house sparrow in my pictures, with his rust colored eye streaks, is a perfect example.

Now for something totally different. My last post was purely about editing my blog. I mentioned then that I might talk a little more about this kind of thing in future posts. Maybe I'd give a few tips here and there. That's what I'm going to do here. I have a good tip for those of you who use Blogger.

Have you ever wanted to add a gadget to your blog that only you can see? The reason for that doesn't matter. It only matters that the gadget is for your eyes only. All you have to do is go into your blog Layout section and add a HTML/JavaScript gadget. Then in your gadget window where you add the code, you put this code in.

<span class="item-control blog-admin">Add Your Code Here</span>

This is kind of simple for those of you who have been adding HTML/JavaScript gadgets for a while now. All you have to do is replace the red letters with your own code that you want to hide, and then put the whole thing into your HTML/JavaScript gadget.

For anyone who wants some easier tips, just give me a suggestion on what you might want to know about. I'll try to give answers to your suggestions in future posts. And don't worry, the majority of my posts will still be about just nature. I just thought I'd sometimes share some of the interesting blogger tricks I've learned. I'd just spin this stuff off into another blog, but I've already got my hands full with three.

And back to nature. I believe this last picture shows the mate of the male house sparrow in the first two pictures. I actually saw this one first. It was wandering around pecking at the ground. Maybe it was eating some of the pebbles. I know some birds need them to help grind up their food, or something like that.

Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I found out the real name of the place I've been calling Berry Lake Park. That's the right name for the lake, but the park is called Long Park. That's it in the Location marker below. See ya next time!


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