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Spizella pusilla
The Field Sparrow lays 4 pale green, brown-spotted eggs in a woven cup-shaped nest of grass lined with rootlets or fine grass and set on or near the ground. Very difficult to see in the summer as they are very well hidden in the brush. When farms and pastures become overgrown with weeds and bushes, birds such as Field Sparrows and Indigo Buntings move in and nest.
Abandoned fields, and pastures grown up to weeds, scattered bushes, and small saplings. This is one of our two fields we only allow the farmer to mow late in the season and every three years to be left for the songbirds. Songbirds prefer in between stages (bushy) of not too mowed and not grown into a forest.
Happy to see these two nests in one of these fields. It means we have been successful in attracting the songbirds.
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