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Title: ID Help: Songbirds
Post by: Doreen on November 25, 2013, 11:50

Tracy would you know what kind of sparrow this is?
He/she is at my feeder today. I hope they don't freeze.
(http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n506/DoreenHebert/IMG_3253.jpg) (http://s1137.photobucket.com/user/DoreenHebert/media/IMG_3253.jpg.html)

Title: ID Help: Songbirds
Post by: RCF on November 25, 2013, 17:11

I know you didn't ask me, but it looks like a Fox Sparrow.  :)

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/fox_sparrow/id (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/fox_sparrow/id)

(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy320/Blondechik_2010/foxsparrow.jpg)

Title: ID Help: Songbirds
Post by: Doreen on November 25, 2013, 17:49

Thank you RCF!  I kinda thought it was a fox sparrow, I see them in the spring and fall as they migrate through. I guess he/she forgot to migrate. Hopefully it will last a Manitoba winter. I have lots of seeds, so he/she won't go hungry.  ;D

Title: ID Help: Songbirds
Post by: The Peregrine Chick on November 25, 2013, 22:54

Quote from: Doreen on November 25, 2013, 17:49

Thank you RCF!  I kinda thought it was a fox sparrow, I see them in the spring and fall as they migrate through. I guess he/she forgot to migrate. Hopefully it will last a Manitoba winter. I have lots of seeds, so he/she won't go hungry.  ;D

RCF is right, it is a Fox Sparrow. 
Hermit Thrush look a bit similar but they are not so bright a red and they are cuter, rounder and a spring/fall bird.