I have not added my digiscoped images as yet to my eBird checklist but in
reviewing them and the videos I took, I am comfortable with a HY (hatch year)
bird as well.
Cheers,
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others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
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林 Quiet as the forest
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Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
> On Nov 20, 2019, at 4:51 PM, Shaibal Mitra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve and all,
>
> In terms of field-observable appearance, my thought was that it was a
> hatching-year bird based on (1) the vagueness and narrowness of the blackish
> arc extending from the forecrown back along the lateral crown; and (2) the
> relatively large amount of yellow bleeding down below the arc, into the front
> of the supercilium. A lot of winter birds out west show much broader, more
> solidly black frontal arcs and little or no yellow below the arc. On the LI
> bird, the dark arc often looked to me like a vague, discontinuous series of
> small dark flecks. I would think an adult would show more black.
>
> When I get a chance I'll check lots of photos for hints regarding molt
> limits, the shapes of rectrix tips, etc.
>
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:11 PM
> To: NYSBIRDS
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Golden-crowned Sparrow Pics and Age
>
> I’ve posted a couple of pictures at my web site http://stevewalternature.com/
> . Not being on top of Golden-crowned Sparrow plumages, I assumed while I was
> there that it’s a first winter (immature) bird. It is what you expect in
> these situations. Now having had a chance to look at references and pictures,
> I’m not so sure about that. This bird seems brighter on the crown and above
> the eye than many immatures. which are often rather plain faced with limited
> yellow. But it is noted that there’s enough variability in adults and
> immatures that they can’t always be aged. This individual looks very similar
> to the one in figure 48.3 in “Sparrows … The Photographic Guide”, which is
> left undetermined to age. You can look it up for yourself, if you care about
> that sort of thing.
>
> Steve Walter
> Bayside, NY
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