Most weekdays I park in downtown Duluth on the hillside full of gravel and weedy edges. While seated in the car and distracted by a radio broadcast and paperwork I noticed a Eurasian tree sparrow right out the windshield in a seedling tree--chocolate brown cap, round black cheek spot. A little bit of inadequate searching so far just turns up occasional sightings in Minnesota; I have yet to find the official records that disciplined, rule-abiding birders would use to look for any local distribution of this species. In January 2015 there was the individual down at Hastings, which was my first. But if I'm seeing Eurasian tree sparrows in Duluth's alleys other people must have seen them too.
*Tanya Beyer* http://www.epiphaniesafield.com/home-page.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
