Subject: [Tweeters] Strange Golden Crowned Sparrow [Mark Neudorfer]
Date: Dec 19 16:09:37 2006
From: mark neudorfer - markneudorfer at yahoo.com


Another request for indentification help.

Last Thursday I had a single Golden Crowned Sparrow visit my deck-rail feeder in
Edmonds. It was in breeding plummage with a central yellow crown with strong
black lateral strips on both sides.

On saturday I had a similar, but different visitor. It had three yellow stripes.
The stripes were in the location of the white stripes on a White Crowned
Sparrow. The upper bill was dusky as on the Golden Crowned Sparrow. Does anyone know what this is?

The leucistic Junco I reported earlier is showing up occassionally. It is part
of a small flock of Juncos that visits my deck-rail feeder every day.

Photos of the two sparrows are at
http://picasaweb.google.com/MarkNeudorfer/PugetSoundDec2006. The "strange" one
is captioned as "unidentified Sparrow".

Good Birding,

Mark Neudorfer


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