Birds

White-Crowned Sparrows

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While we always see sparrows, this is the first year that we saw a White-Crowned Sparrow.

Appearance:  The males and females are like a brown sparrow with a grey chest and a black and white striped cap.  The beak is pinkish.

Feeding Habits:  White-Crowned Sparrows like insects, seeds and berries.  They prefer eating from ground feeders.

Nesting Habits:  Their nests are in the shape of a cup.

Migration:   White-Crowned sparrows like to stay in Pittsburgh during the winter.  If I was them, I would keep going south!  Keep an eye out for them between September and April.   I saw this one in the Spring.

If you missed my article on the Red Bellied Woodpecker, just click on the link.

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