[texbirds] Re: Harris's Sparrow, Brewster Co

  • From: Heidi Trudell <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:26:00 -0500

Well, that was strange: there's a Harris's Sparrow today that doesn't
match my sketch from Sunday. So we either have two birds or it molted
into breeding plumage almost overnight! I'll stick with the two bird
theory, though I'd like to see both side by side just to say I saw two
Harris's Sparrows side by side in Brewster Co...

Less-than-photogenic images here:
http://www.bigbendnature.com/2014/03/sketchy-winter-sparrows.html

-h

Heidi Trudell
Marathon, TX

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Heidi Trudell <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After posting, I rummaged up the old pics - definitely a different
> bird, unless it aged in reverse!
> -h
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Heidi:  Don't use the dark in the face as an indicator.  As Harris Sparrows
>> age the amount of black in the face increases, especially in the
>> males...They are strange that way :-)
>>
>
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