debunkshy: Chipping Sparrow, The Arb, WI, 5-3-17 #241I know…
Chipping Sparrow,
The Arb, WI, 5-3-17
#241
I know Chipping Sparrows are considered common, but for whatever reason I’ve never become very familiar with them. I think it’s a combination of having always lived places where they’re not especially easy to find, and having been a fairly casual birder when it comes to certain “hard” groups (like sparrows).
No more. One of the things being list-obsessed has given me is new motivation to get out there and find all the species I can. I knew Chipping Sparrows had been seen at Sedgwick recently, so I asked Guy, our trip leader, where they’d seen them. Unfortunately it was in a place we weren’t going to visit during the public tour, so I reconciled myself to not getting them for my list today.
Hah! The universe came through again! (And so did Guy, who actually found the bird in a tree near the end of the tour and pointed it out.)
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/172944189501.
Tags: birds, carp without cars, santa barbara county year list, chsp.
