A chipping sparrow has built a nest in one of the Ponderosa pine trees I planted when we moved to our place west of Gilby, N.D. The work was probably done by the female. The female also tends the nest ...

The chipping sparrow may be as ubiquitous as any bird we have. Don't expect to find it on water or in open fields, but other habitats likely have their chipping sparrows. These include backyards, ...

Sparrows are a difficult group nicknamed LBJs, aka little brown jobs. Most are indeed small and brown and look similar. A closer inspection with binoculars reveals key features to secure the ID. The ...

This week’s featured creature is, as far as I know, a permanent resident in the Ada area. It is fairly easy to identify, if just by the size alone. They are among the smallest sparrows and are about ...

Chipping sparrows sail in to perch regularly on the uppermost twig of one in a clump of native eastern red cedars, always a little caterpillar or bug dangling from their beaks. Then they drop down ...

Vendors at baseball parks used to hawk their wares with these words, "Buy your scorecards here. You can't tell the players without a scorecard." That's an appropriate approach to identifying the ...

I needed to do some homework before I could answer a question posed to me by Frances Rosenbalm of Bristol, Tennessee. As she communicated to me in an email, she had discovered a bird’s nest in her ...

I am guilty of a statement concerning a group of birds of our area. The statement is that these small birds are sometimes overlooked or ignored by observers (myself included) searching diligently for ...

The primary seed I offer the sparrows (including chipping sparrows) is white proso millet and sunflower chips. The product I often find on the market here is Pennington Premium Wild Finch Food which ...

Our predominant sparrow of winter is our little American Tree Sparrow, or Spizella arborea, whose genus of birds is often referred to affectionately as “spitzes.” This genus is also called another ...