HI everyone, While photographing in the Cornell Plantations Arboretum this morning, I came across a leucistic Chipping Sparrow in essentially the same spot where I'd seen it last fall (when it was part of a flock). The bird gives the appearance of being almost all white at first sight, but it has normal back feathers and a grey belly. It seems to be paired, or at least trying to be paired, as it was in close association with a conspecific. And from its behavior (following the other bird closely) I'd say it was a male. Pretty cool that it has survived, when sometimes these oddly colored birds don't.
I've put some photos here: http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=172&pos=1 http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=172&pos=2 http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=172&pos=3 Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail [email protected] http://www.marieread.com ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 -- 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/ --
