Subject: [Tweeters] Fox Sparrow migration
Date: Apr 16 18:41:45 2008
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


Hello, tweets.

I just returned from a Florida trip this afternoon (4/16/08), and I
was pleasantly surprised to see three Fox Sparrows in my back yard at
once. Previously the most I'd ever seen at once in the yard was two.
These were interesting in all being the palest sort of Sooty Fox
Sparrows, one of several subspecies that migrate from breeding
grounds in southern Alaska to wintering grounds in California. Most
of the Sooty Fox Sparrows I see in my yard are the very dark
southernmost subspecies Passerella iliaca fuliginosa that breeds in
southern coastal BC and the Olympic Peninsula.

One of the most exciting things about birding in one's own yard is
watching the migrants come and go!

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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