Birders often call small brown nondescript birds like sparrows LBJs, short for “little brown jobs.” Strictly speaking Song Sparrows qualify as LBJs.

However as the photo above shows these little guys really aren’t nondescript when you get a close look. This little Song Sparrow posed for me on a cattail at the Edmonds marsh a few days ago and I snapped a few shots of the handsome LBJ.