(Correction: This guy is a Chipping Sparrow. Be sure and read Patrick’s comment for more information. Thank you, Patrick!)
I took a photo of this little guy the other day. I think it’s a Palm Warbler, but that’s just based on looking in my bird book. I wish I was more knowledgeable on bird identification, but that’s the best I can do! There were a bunch of these little guys in the edge of the wild area behind our house. They are little birds, and they were jumping from dried weed to dried weed, eating the seeds. I suspect they are migrating south. I saw what I think was the same bird back on May 5th. They both have the rust-colored cap and the strong marking through their eye. If they are Palm Warblers, they spend their summers in Canada and then spend the winters along the Gulf Coast, Florida, and the southern part of our Atlantic coast. I just saw them the one afternoon, then, pffft!, they were gone.
Sue
Sue
The bird in the picture above is a “Chipping Sparrow”. Warblers are much more yellow and not nearly as brown on their backs. I looked the picture of the one above in my bird book and it is identical. It winters in Texas and on in to Mexico. Summer range is pretty much all of the 48 states and most of Canada.
Patrick