Hi Tweeters,

Thanks to everyone who helped me with this confounding ID, that young brown
bird at Montlake Fill was most likely a white-crowned sparrow, not a
chippie! Ahhh, mystery solved. Though somewhat disappointingly. :)

Abby Larson
Seattle


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Abby Larson <larson8 at uw.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I ran into a sparrow that didn't fit into the usual boxes on the trail at
> Montlake Fill this morning, a very long-tailed, skinny, tall,
> immature-looking LBJ with a sharply peaked head, streaked breast, strong
> eyeline that widened at the back of the head, sharply conical yellowish
> bill, maybe an immature chipping sparrow? It had a spizella look about the
> back and wings. I don't see them a lot, I'd appreciate some second
> opinions. Lousy pics from my cell available here:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/125980884 at N07/
>
> It hopped on the trail, and flushed into nearby low bushes, always coming
> back to the trail.
>
> Thanks,
> Abby Larson
> Seattle
>
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