Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Found

Clues: - Nest on the ground
- Made of grass
- 5 eggs
- eggs were "greenish, bluish white, marked with brown



- bird fairly small with long tail
- plain face
- white eye ring
- pink bill (BINGO!)



Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)

4 comments:

robin andrea said...

What a find! That's just beautiful.

A house finch has built a nest in one of our junipers, close to the house. They're very secretive and we can't see it, but we know it's there.

Rachel said...

Oh, I hope they survive and nothing bothers her nest until the little ones are all grown up!

Ontario Wanderer said...

RA, I thought they were beautiful too.

R, One can only hope.

LauraHinNJ said...

That pink bill is the giveaway!

I love the field sparrow's song - like a ping-pong ball.