Baffling bird

[martin ahermaa]

I found a trio of  these sparrow-like birds at the SW end of Bluffers Park yesterday [Saturday]
ca. 1 PM.

They had light stripes above the eyes, whitish throats and collars and prominent white bands
along the forward edge of the dark wings, but no wing bars. The light buff breasts were not streaked in any way and the dark tail feathers were also edged with white.

I'm probably not giving a very accurate description. I have a cropped pic, but have not been
able to paste it into this e-mail, as Walter has done.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Martin

[Walter Sobchak]

I just upload the photo to imageshack.

http://imageshack.us/

Use browse to locate the photo on your harddrive then click host it, and then copy the url for the photo into your message.

[martin ahermaa]

Thanks for the info, Walter.

I had my camera along on the Leslie Street Spit yesterday and showed this pic around.
Evidently, this was an immature female snow bunting. Apparently there's a great deal
of variation in the winter plummage for them

All the best,
Martin