A tan-striped White-throated Sparrow joined our flock of Golden-crowned, Song, and Fox Sparrows in West Seattle this morning. All three species were singing pretty vigorously last week, is that the first year birds practicing for next spring?Ed


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On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 11:45 AM -0700, "Dennis Paulson" <dennispaulson at comcast.net> wrote:










Hello, tweets.

Yesterday (9/30) an immature Golden-crowned Sparrow and immature White-crowned Sparrow both paid a visit to our backyard pond, both foraging on what were presumably tiny seeds floating on the surface among all the duckweed and water fern. The day before (9/29) a Fox Sparrow came to the nearby fountain for a drink and bath. These are the first migrant sparrows I?ve seen this fall. Also a lot of juncos have moved into our yard in the past few days.

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