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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: lakewmn on June 17, 2007, 09:34:28 PM

Title: On a late Sunday afternoon
Post by: lakewmn on June 17, 2007, 09:34:28 PM

Took  a late aft trip to Pike Bay via Ferndale (looking for that damn Dickcissel that everyone was talking about) Could not find it! Returning to my home base I took all the backroads and apart from the usual suspects I spotted many Meadowlarks, Bobolinks with females who look totally different from their male counterparts. Tonnes of Kingbirds, Savannah Sparrows, Brewer’s Blackbirds, a couple of Black Billed Cuckoos (the first I’ve ever seen) and a Common Snipe, just sitting there not bothering to move when I took his picture. All in all it was terrific.  BTW female Blackbirds are really hard to identify.
And now for something completely different...That Savannah Sparrow I asked to be identified?....turns out it’s a Baird’s Sparrow. Fairly uncommon, however I spotted about 5 of them throughout my travels. U’all have to wait for the film to get proccessed.

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Post by: GStuart on June 17, 2007, 11:57:37 PM

"Fairly uncommon"?  I would say that a bird of the prairies is downright rare!  I will wait for your pictures.

And too bad about the Dickcissel... that would have been a nice bird.

Title: Baird’s Sparrow ??
Post by: Craig McL on June 18, 2007, 04:45:05 AM

I think that your bird’s are problem not Baird’s Sparrow , only for one reason I have seen 391 species in Ont over 40 years and Baird's sparrow is still on my wish list  :( ,

Vary rear bird hear in the east!! BUT pleas prove me wrong   :) I wood love to tick that one off my to-do list..

Craig McL