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The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape and a black patch on each pure white cheek. The sexes are similarly plumaged, and young birds are a duller version of the adult. This sparrow breeds over most of temperate Eurasia and Southeast Asia, where it is known as the tree sparrow, and it has been introduced elsewhere including the United States, where it is known as the Eurasian tree sparrow or German sparrow to differentiate it from the native unrelated American tree sparrow. Although several subspecies are recognised, the appearance of this bird varies little across its extensive range.
The Eurasian tree sparrow's untidy nest is built in a natural cavity, a hole in a building, or the disused nest of a European magpie or white stork. The typical clutch is five or six eggs which hatch in under two weeks. This sparrow feeds mainly on seeds, but invertebrates are also consumed, particularly during the breeding season. As with other small birds, infection by parasites and diseases, and predation by birds of prey take their toll, and the typical life span is about two years.
The Eurasian tree sparrow is widespread in the towns and cities of eastern Asia, but in Europe, it is a bird of lightly wooded open countryside, with the house sparrow breeding in the more urban areas. The Eurasian tree sparrow's extensive range and large population ensure that it is not endangered globally, but there have been large declines in western European populations, in part due to changes in farming practices involving increased use of herbicides and loss of winter stubble fields. In eastern Asia and western Australia, this species is sometimes viewed as a pest, although it is also widely celebrated in oriental art.
from wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_tree_sparrow
Tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), Reifel bird sanctuary, Westham Island, BC.
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Here I am. I thought I will never be back. But I can't leave you forever.
Forgive me for my absence. I was not myself until now.
I wish you will like this first release for the year 2008.
With Love To All,
Joe
Knole (National Trust) is one of the more formal and grand houses in our area, but they have added some Christmas touches in and around the house.
At this point in the house, it was like being in a deep freeze!
There are more from the 'tree cantos' that can be viewed in the first comment box below. :)
- Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada -
Tree sparrow (Passer montanus) perched on a hedge.
Mazurek (Passer montanus) siedzący na żywopłocie.
Tree sparrow (Passer montanus) perched on a grape vine.
Mazurek (Passer montanus) siedzący na winorośli.
Cheating a bit.Wind blowing about 25 mph so they are at least slow going one way on their feeding run.
Richmond Park has a wonderful collection of gnarly trees with anthropomophic features. The features are not quite so well defined in this, but it makes up for it by its scale and he has a lovely white beard. A tree with a beard, Treebeard?
Llanberis
The sun was in the perfect position to rise between the mountains for sunrise, but that was just one element. I had taken a few photos of the tree the evening before and the water was perfectly still, lovely reelections with a few clouds in the sky. Fast forward 12 hours and it was windy with hardly any clouds in the sky. Luckily i'd set up an hour before sunrise and managed to get a bit of the early morning colour.
Tree sparrow (Passer montanus) perched on a barbed wire.
Mazurek (Passer montanus) siedzący na drucie kolczastym.
Tree sparrow (Passer montanus) perched ona wire mesh fence.
Mazurek (Passer montanus) siedzący na siatkowym ogrodzeniu.
Corvallis, Oregon, has quite a lot of fall color from Japanese maple, red maple, dogwood, and sweetgum trees. This is my favorite neighborhood sweetgum showing what such trees tend to do: they put out a variety of red to yellow leaves and they hold the colors for quite a while. There is a dogwood at the bottom of the tree in uniform red. This sweetgum has an odd shape because it used to have another tree growing through it. The gum from these trees has been used as chewing gum and even employed to concoct medicines and salves to cure a variety of ailments, treat wounds and serve as an important ingredient in adhesives.