Chipping Sparrows: Brief Spring Visitors to Regina, SK

I always like seeing the Chipping Sparrows arrive — and I know it's a fallacy created by their bright rust crowns, but to me they are cheery little birds. They never stay long in our yard, though. A few days, usually in early May, and then they're gone.

Chipping Sparrow, with pale, unmarked chest, eye-stripe and rust head.
(This feeding shelf concept didn't last long, either.) © SB

Chipping Sparrow feeding in Regina, SK, backyard  © SB

What are these: Chipping Sparrows

Location: Backyard, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Photo dates: May 2, 2016.

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