The Marsh Wrens of Arcata Marsh are certainly special, but so are the sparrows. Golden-crowned Sparrows are, sometimes literally, underfoot everywhere. Occasionally they will even get up in a bush and pose nicely. And it is always a treat when a Song Sparrow pops up on something and sings, right out in plain sight, 10 feet away…paying not the least attention attention to you and your camera. This specimen let me walk all around the back side of it with my bean-bag-head monopod, looking for better angles. For a bird photographer it simply does not get any better than this!

Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 600mm equivalent. Shutter preferred. 1/800th @ ISO 800 @ f6.7. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet.