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------=_Part_29465_7181093.1225809445485 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I've just come back from an errand in town (thankfully, I decided to walk or I would have missed this sighting). A House Sparrow came out of some shrubbery with a twig, and landed on a wire. A struggle ensued with another HOSP and the new one got the twig and flew off with it. I checked *Birds of North America Online* and the species account for HOSP indicates that egg laying can occur as late as early September. Further along in the article, it states, "Potential nest sites may be selected in fall, some nest material brought to site and site used as winter roost. These sites may be abandoned before breeding as might nests built during the breeding season." I didn't know that. Lowther, Peter E. and Calvin L. Cink. 2006. House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/012 doi:10.2173/bna.12 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2173/bna.12> Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. ------=_Part_29465_7181093.1225809445485 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>I've just come back from an errand in town (thankfully, I decided to walk or I would have missed this sighting).</div> <div> </div> <div>A House Sparrow came out of some shrubbery with a twig, and landed on a wire. A struggle ensued with another HOSP and the new one got the twig and flew off with it. I checked <em>Birds of North America Online</em> and the species account for HOSP indicates that egg laying can occur as late as early September. Further along in the article, it states, "Potential nest sites may be selected in fall, some nest material brought to site and site used as winter roost. These sites may be abandoned before breeding as might nests built during the breeding season."</div> <div> </div> <div>I didn't know that.</div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <p>Lowther, Peter E. and Calvin L. Cink. 2006. House Sparrow (<span class="genus">Passer</span> <span class="species">domesticus</span>), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/012</p> <p>doi:10.2173/bna.12</p></div></div> <div><br>Randy<br>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.<br></div> ------=_Part_29465_7181093.1225809445485--
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