Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Chipping Sparrow (Potato)

On Friday, June 19th, Pottstown had a huge thunder and rain storm in the afternoon.  So by 7:00 p.m. while I was taking a walk, there were birds all over the place trying to get the freshly displaced worms.  I was going through a memorial garden that is a huge grass field with a few deciduous and evergreen trees spread throughout it.  At first I thought this one was a chipmunk:


The Chipping Sparrow has almost the same coloration as a chipmunk, which is why I mistook it.  Chipping Sparrows are small birds with brown feathers that have a tint of red to them (maybe that is called auburn?)  The body and wing feathers are intermixed with white and black speckles, and they have a white belly.  To differentiate these sparrows from others, I used the black eyeliner that they have on each side of their face.

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