The Bell's Sparrow is not a common bird in our area and I was lucky to see one at the Pine Hill Preserve on April 17.?
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The following description is from the All About Birds website:
The Bell¡¯s Sparrow is a neat, gray-headed sparrow emblematic of California¡¯s coastal sage and chaparral. They also occur in Baja California, the Mojave Desert, and on San Clemente Island, California (a federally threatened subspecies). Like the very similar Sagebrush Sparrow, these birds spend much of their time foraging for insects and seeds on the ground underneath shrubs. In spring males sing a fast mix of trills and chips from the tallest perches they can find.
