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Feeder bully White-crowned Sparrow Sykesville

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Felicia Lovelett

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Felicia Lovelett

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:33:01 -0400

A first winter White-crowned Sparrow has been visiting my feeder daily since
Tuesday. He (or she) is very handsome, but quite a bully.

It chases off all the Song and Chipping Sparrows and pecks  at the House
Finches. Today it even briefly faced down the chipmunk (AKA the seed
vacuum).

White-crowned Sparrows are very uncommon here. Are they all so aggressive at
the feeder or do I just have a particularly rude one? Perhaps it comes from
a broken nest...


Felicia Lovelett
Sykesville, MD