Vesper Sparrow Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: Vesper Sparrows are a species I see quite a bit, but often it's seeing their trademarked white-edge tail as they fly away as I flush an unseen bird from a grassy patch. I've been fortunate to get a huge number of sparrow photos over the years, but Vesper Sparrows are a species for which I have fewer photos than most species. My favorite Vesper Sparrow photo is the best look at the bird itself that I have, of a bird on top of a wooden fence post in Coronado National Forest of Arizona, near Tucson.

Vesper Sparrow - Pooecetes gramineus


Vesper Sparrow 1	Vesper Sparrow 2	Vesper Sparrow 3	Vesper Sparrow 4
April 13th, 2003	June 9th, 2003	September 30th, 2006	September 30th, 2006
Western Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Atkins Slough, Lincoln County, South Dakota	Atkins Slough, Lincoln County, South Dakota
Vesper Sparrow on post (first photo of the species for me)	Young Vesper Sparrow on wooden fence post	Sparrow foraging on a rocky pathway	Sparrow on the ground in a grassland clearing

Vesper Sparrow 5	Vesper Sparrow 6	Vesper Sparrow 7	Vesper Sparrow 8
September 30th, 2006	September 19th, 2009	July 23rd, 2011	July 23rd, 2011
Atkins Slough, Lincoln County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Grand River National Grasslands, South Dakota	Grand River National Grasslands, South Dakota
Bird hidden in typical grassy habitat	Vesper Sparrow greeting the dawn on a gravel road	Sparrow on a barbed wire fence	Sparrow on a barbed wire fence

Vesper Sparrow 9	Vesper Sparrow 10	Vesper Sparrow 11	Vesper Sparrow 12
July 23rd, 2011	November 10th, 2015	October 12th, 2020	September 27th, 2020
Grand River National Grasslands, South Dakota	Coronado National Forest, Arizona	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Vesper Sparrow on a barbed wire fence	Sparrow perched on the top of a wooden fence post	Bird hidden in brushy thicket	Vesper Sparrow in unusual habitat in eastern red cedar tree