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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Napper on April 19, 2025, 01:42:36 PM

Title: Chipping Sparrow, Milton
Post by: Napper on April 19, 2025, 01:42:36 PM

This afternoon I spotted a Chipping Sparrow along our chain link fence. First of year.
Feeder is extremely busy with the same visitors, Downy Woodpecker has the most visit count next to the Cardinals.
Napper:)
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Title: Re: Chipping Sparrow, Milton
Post by: Napper on April 20, 2025, 09:16:23 PM

My Amazon photo experiment, see Chippy
https://www.amazon.ca/photos/share/wetcbGJlK28n0FLsg33ipoKBq145kMlLb7D3FscZW4a (https://www.amazon.ca/photos/share/wetcbGJlK28n0FLsg33ipoKBq145kMlLb7D3FscZW4a)
 :)
It seems to work

BTW,  a Song sparrow showed up today near feeder

Title: Re: Chipping Sparrow, Milton
Post by: Shortsighted on April 21, 2025, 11:03:02 AM

Candid capture ... very natural-looking.  Shame about the fence.  I've heard a chipping sparrow, I think, but have not seen one yet.  A junco and a pine warbler can sound similar, with the former quieter and the latter high up somewhere near a conifer, while a chipping would be near the ground.  Nothing like being ready, camera nearby and shutter button finger well-trained but still retaining that lingering itch.