Under the eaves

House Sparrows moved in with people somewhere around the time people started building houses, and they have not left since. This one was on a dark beam under the eaves, out of the sun, with a wall of white behind it that turned the whole scene into shapes.

It is a male: grey crown, black bib, chestnut on the nape. He sat sideways to me for a while, then turned his head to look, and that is the frame. Sparrows are quick to leave, so you take the one look you get.

The geometry is what I like. Diagonal beam, vertical wall, one small bird where the lines meet.