Are you seeing Tree Sparrows?

Hi

Iâ??m interested to know if you see Tree Sparrows.

Most of us are familiar with the House Sparrow, a much loved bird synonomous with urban living. Itâ??s close relative the Tree Sparrow is in decline and often overlooked amongst itâ??s bigger cousin where they occur together in gardens in villages and on the edge of town. They are increasingly coming to bird feeders and where nest boxes are provided they will often stay to breed, sometimes raising three broods in a year!

You may already know and see Tree Sparrows but, because they are easily overlooked http://www.treesparrows.com/ are encouraging people to look more closely at the sparrows on their bird tables and feeders, and just check that there arenâ??t in fact Tree Sparrows among them.

Unlike the House Sparrow the sexes and young are alike, their rufous caps, white cheeks and black cheek spot are easy to distinguish when you have the opportunity of a close look. So if you see Tree Sparrows in your garden, or on your farm or estate please do let us know atwww.treesparrows.com , where you can find more information how to identify this fascinating and overlooked bird.

This is a video link to Tree Sparrows, Goldfinches and Siskin on a winter feeder

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It could be on your bird table now!

Thanks

David

 

Yes, here in a very urban part of Kent I get tree sparrows, house sparrows and dunnocks, who all seem pretty happy to hang out with one another. I also get blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, goldfinches, starlings, mistle thrushes, blackbirds, robins, wagtails, woodpigeons and collared doves. This won't impress anyone who lives in the country, but I think it's pretty good for concrete jungle!

 

Welcome to GC David, Tree Sparrows are almost extinct in Dorset:( but a few have been recorded recently. We get all the 'usual suspects' here with the occasional Black Redstart and Wheatear on passage. I would love to see Tree Sparrows again.

 

i have been lookin in my garedn and i havent seen any tree sparrow yet, just house ones

 

At least one pair of tree sparrows here in my garden in South Yorkshire.

This is the first year I have seen them and thought I was fooling myself the start with that they were house sparrows but they keep coming back and they are definitely the tree sparrow

 

We have a thriving colony of tree sparrows (very rural location, north Cumbria, 700 feet above sea level) but no house sparrows. Many chaffinches, goldfinches, greenfinches, several great spotted woodpeckers. In previous years we have had large numbers of blue, great and coal tits but the hard winter seems to have taken its toll on them. We have rarer residents, too, such as redpolls and nuthatches, and visits from wheatears, skylarks, meadow pipits, sparrowhawks and very memorably once, a peregrine falcon which sat on a rock just outside our fence and ate a blackbird!

 

Hi,my first real post on here and I am one of the priveleged.I have had tree sparrows feeding,bathing and nesting in my garden in the north east of england.I was delighted to watch the youngsters fledge and it was incredible to see the parents go from feeding in one nest box to taking building material into another . I cant believe that until a couple of years ago I didnt notice the difference between house and tree sparrows.Now I adore these little birds
Sheila

 

It would be nice if the original (first) poster acknowledged the imput here!

 

We are very lucky and have a proper little flock of tree sparrows. Ours tend to be a little more shy than the house sparrows. They are quite a pretty little bird.