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White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis

Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
(showing the characteristic grey rump)

  A White-throated Sparrow has joined the local 'out-front' House Sparrow gang, we’ll see if it sticks around all winter. A Chipping Sparrow also passed through today - they breed in the pines up the street. Less likely to overwinter, I guess. What else? I used to see Fox Sparrows next door, until they whacked down the micro-habitat provided by a handful of sumacs a few years back.