Subject: Re: sparrows
Date: May 02 13:52:18 1997
From: Herb Curl - Herb_Curl at hazmat.noaa.gov


Mary Jefferson writes:
>Under my spruce trees this afternoon were two sparrows mixed in with the
>pine siskins. From my bird books I deduced that they were probably
>Savanah sparrows. Are they fat round sparrows with a yellow stripe by
>the eye, heavily striped upper body but a plain belly? They were
>definately not yellow crowned or even a white crowned sparrow with a dye
>job.
>
>PS I took a birding trip to Nebraska....no one told me it was d--- cold
>in Nebraska in April......

Sounds like Savannahs all right. It's pretty darn cold in Juneau in April,
too.
------Herb Curl
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