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Welcome Back Fox Sparrows
At Germantown MetroPark Nature Center, we have a wonderful big window overlooking cedar habitat, a number of bird feeders, build water features, and bird cover such as a stick lean-to. It’s a wonderful place for birds to visit and we like to watch them and point out different kinds of birds to the visiting public. Many people look forward every year to the bird migration when our summer birds return. Not as many are waiting for fall when a few birds come down from their northern homes to stay with us only for our winter. I guess it is all relative, but for some northern birds our Ohio winters feels like Florida feels to those of us who go way south for a winter break. Today, a pair of big fox sparrows showed up scratching the ground around the logs looking for seeds. (Most fox sparrows actually go further south but we still like to claim our Ohio climate is like Florida to them and a few will stick around here into the winter). We love to see them with their beautiful reddish tails and center chest dot. They look like big song sparrows. It is apparent that they are our largest sparrow when they are feeding near their smaller relatives. They are one of the reasons winter is a special time for bird watching and we’re excited it is back.
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