After putting in ~3 hours finishing up my area for the NYSOA January Waterfowl Count at Heckscher State Park I was heading back to my car when I again encountered the large (35-40) American Tree Sparrow flock on the west side of the pool complex. This is the same location the flock had been in on my last two visits. I'd looked for the reported CLAY-COLORED SPARROW (CCSP) both times but had come up empty. Today my luck was better, as I spotted the CCSP during my first scan of a portion of the flock feeding in the short grass in front of the pool's northwest corner. There were also a few Field Sparrows and Song Sparrows in the flock. Some pretty poor photos of the CCSP will be up on Flickr later.
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