sparrows

She's just a bird and she's on FIYAH

By adamg - 11/26/23 - 5:05 pm

Mary Ellen found the Alicia Keys of the bird world the other day: A song sparrow in a puddle as the sun came up over Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

Birdbrains on the Orange Line

By adamg - 12/8/17 - 9:47 am

Sheri Ann Chang suspects these Orange Line riders didn't pay their fares.

Sparrows at Franklin Park Zoo really feathered their nest

By adamg - 6/7/15 - 11:04 pm

Jef Taylor, who works at the Franklin Park Zoo, shows us the nest a pair of house sparrows built in a weed trimmer stored in a zoo tool cage:

Nest components: grasses, trash, flamingo feathers.

Heeding the governor's warning to stay inside

By adamg - 1/3/14 - 10:33 am

So how cold is it? It's so cold even the birds are flocking inside to stay warm, as Eric Maki discovered in the Harvard Square CVS.

Punk sparrows

By adamg - 1/21/09 - 7:19 pm

George surveyed the scene at Belle Isle Marsh this morning:

... I walked out the Overlook path and saw a full crew of Tree Sparrows at the old feeder. The sparrows intimidate the Chickadees and keep them away from the food. A little ways further and the Robins were still hanging around. The Sumac fruit is enough to keep them in the area. ...