And sparrows

Sparrows kind of all look alike.  There are a whole bunch of different species though.  They’re all about the same size.  They’re all little brown birds.  Most of the ones we see in cities look like this.  House Sparrows.

 

Male and female.  Note the clear breast of each and the dark face of the male.

 They’re often in flocks.

 

And here is something a little different visiting our feeder.  A lincoln’s sparrow.

 

A finely streaked breast.  A cresty head when he’s in that kind of mood.  And a buffy jawline.

 

He’ll come to a feeder around other birds, but otherwise more solitary than house sparrows.