A male spotted towhee has been coming to seed in my yard today. photo to ebird. Elizabeth Copper Melrude
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2019, at 9:46 PM, "jsl...@frontiernet.net" <jsl...@frontiernet.net > wrote: > > Today Sharon Lind and I saw an apparent Eurasian Tree Sparrow x House > Sparrow hybrid in our yard off Scenic Drive just west of Two Harbors in Lake > County. The bird had a faint but noticeable dark ear spot on its grayish > white cheeks, a burgundy brown head with extensive gray on the crown, a > flattened rather than rounded crown, and an off-white hind collar that did > not look as extensive as a Eurasian Tree Sparrow's. > > A Eurasian Tree Sparrow spent the winter of 2016-2017 in downtown Two Harbors > (last photographed in late April 2017), and another was seen on September 22 > of 2018 at the Two Harbors cemetery. Andy and Jill Beim had three Eurasian > Tree Sparrows this spring northeast of Tettegouche State Park May 21-23, 2019. > > There are sightings of Eurasian Tree Sparrow x House Sparrow hybrids in eBird > from Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. > > I'll post photos to the Recently Seen page on the MOU site soon. Our eBird > checklist with photos is at: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60442256 > Jim LindTwo Harbors > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.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
