Subject: Re: Cascadian Fox Sparrows
Date: Jun 15 11:22 PD 1995
From: Michael Price - michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Teeters,

Dennis queries:

(snips)

>BC birders, do Fox Sparrows breed elsewhere on the S tip of Vancouver
>Island or in the Gulf Islands?

Don't know about the Gulf Islands, but territorial males and fresh juveniles
have been seen in the last five or six years on the tops of the mountains on
whose sides the cities of both N & W Vancouver BC are situated. No nests
have ever been found, but then I don't think there's ever been a concerted
search for 'em. They seem to like the scraggily-vegetated open hillsides.

I was up in Cypress Bowl above W VCR a few weeks ago and had at least 2
singing males but not enough time to see what race they were. Al Jaramillo
went up a week later onto Mt Seymour in N VCR and found two territorial
males that appeared to be intermediate between a 'Sooty' Fox and one of the
grey-headed races. Dennis, Is this likely to be 'altigavens' or--and I hope
I get this right--'cascadiensis'?

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca