Chipping Sparrow

Spizella passerina

 (L 5.5" WS 8.5" Wt 0.42 oz)

Has well-known fast trill song
...juveniles have streaked breast.

Yard birds

Oak Park, IL

4May2008

Morton Arboretum

Lisle, IL

2Jul2009

The little brown-capped pensioner of the
dooryard and lawn, that comes about farm-
house doors to glean crumbs shaken from
the tablecloth by thrifty housewives.

(Edward Forbush, 1929)

15Apr2013