The Italian sparrows around here have a strikingly rich shade of brown on the back of their heads. Catching them on camera is difficult because they don't sit still for long. Many are tending nests or building nests. Yesterday we saw 4 Italian sparrows mobbing an Eurasian magpie. We watched and learned they had good reason to mob the magpie as the magpie tore a sparrow nestling limb from limb and swallowed it down. Once the first limb came off the sparrows gave up and flew away.
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