Could be wrong :).
Catching the morning sun, kir, kir, kir
Can some bird experts help me ID these birds? I think they’re house sparrows and a bunch of them live in the bush near my deck.
**** Continuing. Found by Monica Higgins (twice as I understand it; congratulations and thank you!). Flew in with a vocalizing ROYT at 8:29 a.m., joining a ROYT already roosting on the southern end of the island east of the road. Recorded vocalizations (made while a ROYT flew close to the roosting birds). Departed toward Eagle Lakes around 8:50 a.m. Photos.
Smaller seeming to me than Sooty