[birdky] Lucky Texans
- From: Lyneart <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: BIRDKY Freelists <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:24:08 -0600
This morning when I put food out Jeeves was back in the field. I couldn't
figure out where he was by the mid morning feeding. After lunch I got a call
from Steve Matherly of Katy, Texas who I was expecting Saturday. He and his
wife Cindy (hope I remembered right) planned to bird their way to a visit their
daughter at a cheerleader camp in Northern KY. He was calling from Springfield
and wanted to know if the roads were good enough to get here. I hadn't been out
so I couldn't tell him much. He decided he would try it. Not knowing where
Jeeves was, I decided to put more food in the yard and watch there until they
arrived. If I didn't see him there, we could try the field. I saw Jeeves under
the bird table a few minutes before the Matherlys arrival. Not long after they
started watching, Jeeves appeared in the shrub several feet from the bird table
and perched there in the open for quite a while before flying down for some
corn. Probably the longest and nearest view any visitors have had of Jeeves. He
also made a couple of more appearances after that.
I had to ask why, coming from the very heart of Harris's Sparrow normal
winter range, they wanted to see Jeeves. Sure, there are plenty of Harris's
Sparrows in Texas, but they had not seen one in KY. That's birding in a league
beyond my ken.
Got a picture of a Fox Sparrow today + Jeeves a few minutes before
sunset.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123438032@N04/
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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