Chipping Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Description: The Chipping Sparrow has a reddish brown cap and a back covered in different shades of brow and gray. The front of its body is gray and its bill is dark gray.
Diet: Seeds and insects, common sight at feeders.
Nest: Flexible cup of coarse and fine grasses, plant stems, and rootlets. Lined with hair such as horse, cow, dog and human hair. Sometimes lined with coconut husk from plant pots. One nest I found contained tinsel. Nest is typically placed in conifers, if conifers are not available shrubs, trees or a tangle of vines will be used.
Eggs: 3 - 5 pale bluish - green eggs with dark markings usually around the bottom.
Habitat: Open woodlands, yards and gardens. As at home in urban areas as it is in natural locations.
Diet: Seeds and insects, common sight at feeders.
Nest: Flexible cup of coarse and fine grasses, plant stems, and rootlets. Lined with hair such as horse, cow, dog and human hair. Sometimes lined with coconut husk from plant pots. One nest I found contained tinsel. Nest is typically placed in conifers, if conifers are not available shrubs, trees or a tangle of vines will be used.
Eggs: 3 - 5 pale bluish - green eggs with dark markings usually around the bottom.
Habitat: Open woodlands, yards and gardens. As at home in urban areas as it is in natural locations.