DALLAS, TEXAS — Mission aborted. Frozen overpasses sent cars into the ditches, and after watching a pickup fishtail past a serious wreck, we turned back just shy of Oklahoma.

Cardinals, Field Sparrows, Mourning Doves, Blue Jays, juncos, and chickadees fed busily at June’s feeder, as one might expect on a cold day like today. The Downy Woodpecker returned repeatedly to his suet block as a boisterous game of Scrabble proceeded behind the glass.

I looked up to see a Harris’s Sparrow sitting quietly on the wooden fence, and it stayed long enough for June to see. It came back later, giving her a better look, but I had gone upstairs.

After everyone else had left, gingerly braving the roads, June and I indulged to celebrate her lifer. It was ice cream of course — chocolate chip cookie dough with raspberry chocolate topping.

Thank you, Harris’s Sparrow!

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