Today I had a brief window to look for birds so I headed to Elings Park which is close to home. There have been some good bird sightings here over time, and migration is still happening so it is possible that something unusual might be hanging around.
I strolled around the top of the park for about 45 minutes without seeing anything out of the ordinary. There were basically no warblers around anywhere. I started looking at a sparrow working through the fennel and I could immediately see it was not the usual resident sparrow (White-crowned or Savannah).
I followed the sparrow around and also got some photos. I was pretty convinced it was a juvenile Chipping Sparrow but not 100% certain. You may recall I found a juvenile Chipping Sparrow about 3 weeks ago at La Mesa Park. This one shared the basic ID features but did have a bit of a different look to it, so I sent photos to Mark Holmgren who kindly confirmed my suspicions. I hoped that I was wrong and it was actually a Brewer's Sparrow (which I have yet to see this year) but it was not to be. Those young sparrows can be challenging!
Some photos from this morning:
Chipping Sparrow - Juvenile
Chipping Sparrow - Juvenile
Chipping Sparrow - Juvenile. And a snail!
After today the year's total still stands at 256.
Today I rode a total of 2.6 miles
More later,
Glenn
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