Crosby was awash is White-throated Sparrows this afternoon. They seemed to have dropped down out of the wind, right onto the river path in front of me, all of them singing for several moments. Some of them sounded a bit "off", and I tried to check each one I could, admittedly in hopes of a Harris' (White-crowned would be nice, too!). They quickly went to ground to forage, disappearing into the woods just at the east edge of the evergreens. A few more were found by the backwater under the 35 E bridge.
Also present there, was one solitary sandpiper. It spooked off the shoreline and flew to a log in the middle of the water, where its bobbing-tail walk gave me good looks at its greenish legs and lovely spots. Then it took off, flashing its tail, with dark center and lighter outer feathers. On the NE corner of the Shepard-Elway intersection was the Find of the day, foraging in the oak woods on the hill among some White-throated sparrows: an r female E. Towhee. She left her ground-scratching to perch where I could admire her rich brown and white, and bright russet plumage. Linda Whyte ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
