At 11:50 or so at the NE corner of the Freese rd gardens, a sparrow popped up that had a streakless breast and the look of a breeding chipping sparrow but a little bit off. When I noticed its gray collar I wondered: clay-colored? But in flipping through Sibley I'm finding other sparrows (including chipping) having that gray collar. It seemed a bit bigger than chipping (for what that's worth) and I don't trust any other details in my mental image (that's now been polluted by flipping through the various Sibley illustrations) - it was very cooperative for a good while, but not long enough to get my camera on it. I've hung out in this corner for the last half hour and have failed to relocate it (or anything looking like a chipping, even).
I did find field and Lincoln, a few Savannahs and many songs though the dominant birds are gold and house finches, in large flocks that would spook and fly up into the trees every so often (I don't think I'm the spooker; at one point I saw across the road what might've been a falcon, but the look wasn't good enough to be sure). Suan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
