This morning while walking the dog I found a Nelson's Sparrow somewhere other than Hog Hole. I doubt if the bird can be relocated, but then, who knows what else may be in the same location?
There is a field of tall grass (switchgrass?) along the west side of the northern portion of Bluegrass Lane (that is, Bluegrass just south of Hanshaw). I discovered this morning that there is an unpaved track that runs north/south through the middle of the switchgrass. The northern portion of this track is more or less dry, but the southern (lower) portion is quite damp. As I was walking through the switchgrass along this track, I flushed many sparrows, mostly Song and Savannah, but also the one Nelson's. The Nelson's was, not surprisingly, at the southern (wetter) end, and not too far from the edge of the patch of switchgrass. It popped up and perched near the top of the grass for about a minute, semi-concealed but with a decent view of the breast and facial pattern, and then dropped down again. Good birding, tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
