Sparrows Turn... The Riffraff

Our bird feeder has been very active the past few days since I put it up for the season. Usually the finches and chickadees dart in and out but occasionally the sparrows show up in a large flock and hang around for awhile. Today there were some flurries in the air, it was a little colder and the sparrows came for their turn at the feeder.

I was sitting at the kitchen table working on my laptop and had to stop and take a photo of the sparrows waiting their turns in the feeder. They were only hanging out for a short time. 

We do enjoy watching the birds at the feeder throughout the winter right there from our kitchen window. They are about half way through the first load of seed in the feeder. There have been some jays, cardinals and doves coming by but they can't get to the seed but so far no squirrels have been climbing over the feeder yet.

When the sparrows are around the bird feeder in numbers we always refer to them as the riffraff.