[wisb] Nelson's Sparrow- Richland County

Hey everyone, 
I went searching for Harris' Sparrow this morning to try and add one to my 
county list.  As it ended up, I found every other sparrow under the sun except 
Harris'. Did get a new county bird tho!  
I birded down along the southwestern corner of the county this morning along 
the WI river. 
Along the eastern edge of Windward Square Rd, I found a mixed flock of 
Sparrows, mostly Savannahs, but I did manage to find a single Nelson's 
Sparrow!!! The warm buffy color on the head, darker cheek patch, flat-headed 
Ammodramus shape stood out quite well.  Unfortunately, it did not pose for 
photos like Jenny Wenzel's bird did. County bird #229!! :D 
I hiked around in the Foxtail and managed to kick up a rather unexpected 
Henslow's Sparrow as well. 
Sparrows for the morning were: Chipping, Song, White-throated, White-crowned, 
Vesper, Savannah, Henslow's, Field, Nelson's, House "Sparrow" 

I also saw my FOS Northern Shrike!! Interestingly, it was in the same place as 
one that stayed all last winter, but this one appears to be a juvie. 


Btw, as a side note, over at Mississippi Explorer Cruises, we will be starting 
our fall migration cruises out of Lansing, IA on Oct 29-30 and running them for 
3 weekends. Hope to see some of you out on the river! :D 



Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi 
Explorer Cruises
http://mississippiexplorer.com/chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/ 
http://www.nabirding.com/http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto

"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the 
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be 
again."

(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)                  
                  
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