Savannah Sparrow

I saw this pretty little sparrow on the east side of the park, just a bit south of the gravel

More Savannah Sparrows have arrived to join those I first saw in early October. Note the plural. Males and females

This Savannah Sparrow foraged for bugs, its favorite food, on the rocks on the east side of the park, just

This Savannah Sparrow perched on a rock facing a stretch of green that not long ago was a prosperous nesting

The Savannah Sparrows are back. While many other bird species migrate to the far north for breeding in spring, some

Seeing one Savannah Sparrow is good; seeing two is better. These two in the video shared a bush near the

I last saw Savannah Sparrows with their iconic yellow eyebrows in March of this year. Those frequented the east side

The yellowish spot over the eye marks this little windblown creature as a Savannah Sparrow, so named because the naturalist

The ranks of the migrant sparrows returning to the park grew with the appearance of this Savannah Sparrow on the

I filmed the birds in this video in the unmowed tract of tall vegetation south of the flare station. See

According to the Audubon bird website, this sparrow is “abundant and widespread.”  The Cornell bird lab website seconds the motion,

The yellow eyebrows mark this sparrow as a Savannah male.  He’s preening in the bushes up north in the Nature

I’ve seen her or him twice before in recent weeks, always in the same low brushes between the North Basin