スズメの砂浴び　240826　"Invite wild birds to the garden" Today's sand bath. 

朝何気なくテラスを見たら、引き抜いた雑草を乾燥させていた根の近くで、根に付いていた土（パラパラ程度）を必死に体に擦り付けるスズメの姿が間に入りました。
実は以前、砂浴び用に砂を入れた植木鉢を置きましたが、皆さんスルーで。
うちのスズメさんは砂浴びしないと思ってたんですよね。
必要なのは砂ではなく土でした。
I happened to look out onto the terrace in the morning, and saw a sparrow standing near the roots of some pulled-out weeds where I was drying them, desperately rubbing the soil (which was only a little dust) from the roots over its body.
I'd actually put a flowerpot filled with sand out there for the sparrow to take sand baths in, but it ignored it.
I thought that my sparrows didn't want to take sand baths.
What they needed was soil, not sand.
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