Subject: [Tweeters] Immature Lazuli Bunting at The Fill?
Date: Jul 16 15:22:59 2011
From: Blair Bernson - blair at washingtonadvisorygroup.com


I just got back from a quick trek around the Fill
where rain was replaced by sun and it was very
humid for a bit. I am about 80%- 90% sure that I
saw an immature Lazuli Bunting in one of the
shrubs between the almost totally dry Shoveler's
pond and the Main Pond. The right size, shape and
posture, wingbars, light wash on throat and upper
chest, light belly and no streaking, dark eye and
conical bill a little longer and thinner than
House Finches. Definitely not a Savannah Sparrow,
of which there were many about. I had stopped on
a whim on the way back home from downtown so no
camera to record for posterity. I have never seen
a Lazuli Bunting at The Fill and would expect an
adult rather than immature but cannot otherwise
identify.