With a thick blanket of snow in the background, this White-throated Sparrow is eating the berries off of a poison ivy plant. It's pretty funny that something that gives humans an itchy, nasty and oozing rash on contact, feeds a large portion of the songbird population during the winter. The sand dunes of Gateway National Park has some of the largest poison ivy fields I have ever seen, and during the winter it's a fantastic spot to go for songbirds, as it is one of the few remaining guaranteed food sources around. You never know what is going to show up there.
Sandy Hook - Gateway National Park Middletown, New Jersey
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