Wet House Sparrows
House Sparrows splashing in a puddle
Father House Sparrow feeding son
Male house sparrow feeding young male. One reason to keep your feeders up in summer is so that the parent birds can feed the babies! Suet is one of the first things many birds feed their babies so it’s very important to leave it up all year.
White House Sparrow
White House Sparrow from earlier this year.
Half white House Sparrow
Rare half white house sparrow. His tail and back are white. There are two like this in our yard.
Young male House Sparrow
Young male House Sparrow eating birdseed
Young male or female House Sparrow?
See this House Sparrow every day. It looks like a female house sparrow but it has black spots near its legs. Young males don’t normally look like this. It looks to be an adult. There is another sparrow like this with balck spots only near its legs. Young males normally only have it under their chin. I saw a half-white male House Sparrow a couple of days ago. All near his tail was white.
Three male House Sparrows!
Three male House Sparrows eating birdseed on the patio
House Sparrow?
Is this a House Sparrow? It looks different than the ones that normally visit. It looks like a normal sparrow but it’s mostly gray.
House Sparrow Fledgling
This female House was opening her yellow beak very wide and licking the top of her mouth. She was also blinking a lot. She looked newly fledged and smaller than the other House Sparrow fledglings that visit our feeder. She was on our fence and wasn’t eating seeds.
Can anyone ID this little guy?
Can anyone ID this little guy? Seen 6 Sep 2019
Sparrow Nest with possibly cowbird eggs
Do you know which eggs are cowbird eggs and song sparrow egg?
Chipping Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Fledgling Chipping Sparrow
One of the four baby Chipping Sparrows that had just fledged
Chipping Sparrow Family
Was lucky to have this beautiful Chipping Sparrow family in my front yard this year!
Leucistic Chipping Sparrow on Her Nest
I had no idea this Chipping Sparrow had built a nest right in front of my house until I got home one day and was walking from my car to the front door when she flew out of a very small, skinny shrub right at the corner of my house! I was thrilled the first time I saw this beautiful bird come to my feeders and couldn’t believe it when she decided to nest right in my own front yard!
Feeding time!
A leucisitc Chipping Sparrow and her mate built a nest right at the front corner of my house next to the walk and driveway in a skinny 3-foot tall shrub. We tried to avoid disturbing the nest as much as possible by using the back door, but the car traffic in the driveway couldn’t be avoided. The parents didn’t seem to mind that we were around – they went about their business and always kept a watchful eye from the roof of our house or a nearby tree. Every few days when I would get home from work, I’d peek at the nest through my camera lens while sitting in my car in the driveway. After I snapped this photo, I realized it must have been feeding time because the baby was swallowing a bug. I went inside and let the parents get back to business. The parents are still frequenting my backyard feeders even though the babies have now fledged.