Family bath time.



We have large numbers of chipping sparrows around right now. A group came in to the pond for to bathe.
The one on the right is an immature so he looks a little different.
The pond brings in as many if not more birds than the feeders do.

Spizella passerina
The early naturalists had a gift for description you just don’t see anymore. In 1929, Edward Forbush called the Chipping Sparrow “the little brown-capped pensioner of the dooryard and lawn, that comes about farmhouse doors to glean crumbs shaken from the tablecloth by thrifty housewives.”

The oldest known Chipping Sparrow was 11 years, 10 months old

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Golden-crowned kinglet.

Connecticut warbler

Folded rocks.