We need more Chipping Sparrows!

The Chipping Sparrow, one if not the smallest of the sparrows is rather nondescript. it's not terribly colorful except for its bright rusty cap. It's got no fancy colors or striped breast. It doesn't have a rousing song like the Song Sparrow or White-throated Sparrow.

No, the Chipping Sparrow could be just another LBJ (Little Brown Job). Except, as I discovered this afternoon, it likes to eat Dandelion seeds.

A Chipping Sparrow perched on a Dandelion stalk

Chipping Sparrow--saying grace?

Chipping Sparrow pausing before its meal.

Chipping Sparrow eyeing up its selection.

Chipping Sparrow digs into its tucker.

Chipping Sparrow takes a breather.

Chipping Sparrow with two seeds in its bill.

Makes me wish a horde of Chipping Sparrows would descend upon my lawn just as the sea gulls did upon the fields around the Great Salt Lake. Lord knows, there's enough Dandelion seeds to go around!