This morning at 9:45 AM I found a Nelson's Sparrow at the Main Property of Dodge Nature Center, Mendota Heights. The sparrow flushed out of some marsh grass about 20 meters from the South end of the floating Boardwalk. This is on the N-S trail that leads from the Little Red School House across the Farm Pond to the Farm. The shape and the way this bird flew immediately made me think it was an Ammodramus sparrow. When it perched in a bare tree next to the marsh, I identified it as a Nelson's Sparrow due to the bright orange/yellow face and chest, with large gray ear patches, and gray crown edged in dark brown, white belly, dark back with some white streaking and short rounded tail.
Scott B. Meyer Hennepin County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
