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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on March 23, 2017, 08:32:35 PM

Title: Chipping sparrow in east york
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on March 23, 2017, 08:32:35 PM

heard a chipping sparrow singing in my back yard.

Title: Re: Chipping sparrow in east york
Post by: Pat Hodgson on March 25, 2017, 03:22:21 PM

Are you certain it wasn't a junco?

Title: Re: Chipping sparrow in east york
Post by: Walter Fisher on March 31, 2017, 11:36:45 PM

I too am hearing Chipping Sparrows in many places now.

Good birding,
Walter :)

Title: Re: Chipping sparrow in east york
Post by: Pat Hodgson on April 01, 2017, 09:12:49 AM

for sure chipping sparrows are starting to arrive now, but there are still a lot more juncos around, and they sing here now and it is an easy mistake to make - I really enjoy hearing the juncos singing at this particular moment of spring and want to be sure others are not missing out!  It is a good opportunity to listen to them in case you are ever birding farther north where both are present during breeding season and it is not an automatic easy ID when you hear a trill.

Title: Re: Chipping sparrow in east york
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on April 02, 2017, 07:50:15 PM

Quote from: "Pat Hodgson"

for sure chipping sparrows are starting to arrive now, but there are still a lot more juncos around, and they sing here now and it is an easy mistake to make - I really enjoy hearing the juncos singing at this particular moment of spring and want to be sure others are not missing out!  It is a good opportunity to listen to them in case you are ever birding farther north where both are present during breeding season and it is not an automatic easy ID when you hear a trill.

good question. but that day, it was a chipping sparrow.
heard it again today and, while we still have juncos, pretty sure it was a C sparrow