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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Axeman on April 04, 2008, 02:44:40 PM

Title: Smallish Sparrow
Post by: Axeman on April 04, 2008, 02:44:40 PM

Sorry...no pic...but a small sparrow scratching around outside of seed spill around feeders...rusty cap with grey streaks...grey on side of face...bit of grey through body...black spot on breast plate...brown streaks through breast but "tummy" is creamish...tail not rufous or shaped like Fox...leaning towards Lincoln's Sparrow...solo bird...

Title: Re: Smallish Sparrow
Post by: GStuart on April 04, 2008, 06:00:48 PM

Quote from: "Axeman"

...black spot on breast plate...

This makes it sound like a Song Sparrow.

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Post by: Carl-Adam on April 04, 2008, 09:31:51 PM

to early for lincolns sounds like a tree sparrow or song sparrow.