Clay-coloured Sparrow: May Backyard Sparrows, Regina SK (4)

Clay-coloured Sparrows are one of my favourite native North American sparrows — they look so clean and crisp, with their pale buffy breasts, pink legs and streaked crowns.

These sparrows live in the grasslands and prairies, throughout the mid section of North America. They breed across Western Canada and the Northern U.S., winter in Mexico, and migrate across the central U.S. And yes, they visit Saskatchewan every summer, and hang out in spring in my Regina backyard.

Clay-coloured Sparrow, in backyard lilac. © SB

Clay-coloured Sparrow, in Regina park. © SB

What are these?  Clay-coloured Sparrows

Location: Top photo, Backyard, Regina, Saskatchewan; bottom photo, park, Regina, Saskatchewan. 

Photo date: Top photo, May 10, 2013; bottom photo, May 9, 2012. 

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