{"id":150633,"date":"2015-02-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ea9367444fb83d1e00472369f21419e3"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:51:02","slug":"chipping-sparrow-at-central-winds-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/chipping-sparrow-at-central-winds-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipping Sparrow at Central Winds Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I moved to Florida I was very new to birding, and I knew next to nothing about sparrows. I remember going to take our dog Ella to a dog park.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know at the time that right next to this dog park was the best place to find warblers in Seminole County, Central Winds Park.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I remember walking from the dog park to Lake Jesup and seeing sparrows.<\/p>\n

I had no idea what they were, but I took a couple photos (terrible ones with a point and shoot camera), and later determined they were Chipping Sparrows.<\/p>\n

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Chipping Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chipping Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The odd thing is that since that first visit I’ve been to Central Winds (including the dog park area) 250 times and seen 152 speices in the park. However, I haven’t seen single sparrow since that first visit–no Savannah Sparrows, no Swamp Sparrows, nothing.<\/p>\n

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Chipping Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, this week I’ve started seeing Chipping Sparrows here again. And a couple have even been pretty cooperative. Now it would be great to see some other sparrows here too – Clay-colored would be nice.<\/p>\n

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When I moved to Florida I was very new to birding, and I knew next to nothing about sparrows. I remember going to take our dog Ella to a dog park. I didn’t know at the time that right next to this dog park was the best place to find warblers in Seminole County, Central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2195928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/02-17\/i-q8nFd4f\/0\/L\/2015-02-17%2C%20_MG_3228-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3155,3512,3245,3012,2542,286],"class_list":["post-150633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-central-winds-park","tag-chipping-sparrow","tag-lake-jesup","tag-savannah-sparrow","tag-swamp-sparrow","tag-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}