I don't have Sibley but this bird was uniformly brown from beak to tail above and a couple shades lighter below. No streaks. I see the Field Sparrow's nape is paler than it's back. I hope to find them again tomorrow in better light. It was so cloudy and dark this afternoon.
Thanks! Anita On 10/08/2012 08:13 PM, James Neves wrote:
Field Sparrow? Look at the gray adult in Sibley. James Neves Athens, GA On Oct 8, 2012 5:18 PM, "Anita Huffman" <housewren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:housewren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: The bird was a sparrow/finch type. It flew up out of a brush pile along with some song sparrows and towhees. It had rich brown upper parts with no streaking whatsoever, at least that I could see. It had paler underparts, again with no streaking. No streaking on the wings except a very tiny hint of buffy edge on the greater primary coverts, just barely visible. It had a pale flesh-colored bill the best I could tell. It was a little smaller and chunkier than the song sparrow in the bush near it. I didn't get a good look at the tail but it appeared to be the same color as the upper parts and shorter than the song sparrow's tail.
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