Subject: [Tweeters] American Tree Sparrow
Date: Mon Nov 26 13:04:20 PST 2018
From: Jane Hadley - hadleyj1725 at gmail.com

My husband Randy Robinson found an American Tree Sparrow yesterday
(Sunday Nov 25) at the Skagit Game Range (aka Wylie Slough, Skagit
Wildlife Area Headquarters Unit, and no doubt several other names).

You can go to this link (below) to find the exact location of the sighting:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.322509,-122.385067

It was in shrubs and small trees on your right as you walk along the
dike out towards the bay.

Also, I've posted six pictures that I took in the Skagit yesterday (most
at Wylie Slough), including the American Tree Sparrow at:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3UxoFzGx3g7ARpjM8

According to the Annotated Checklist of the Second Edition of A Birder's
Guide to Washington,


> American Tree Sparrow Spizella arborea -; Uncommon (east) to rare

> (west) win-

> ter resident of cattail-marsh edges, brushy habitats. Most frequent

> November-;De-

> cember around Molson, West Foster Creek, Potholes, Big Flat HMU. West of

> Cascades, most reports from mixed-species sparrow flocks at Skagit

> Game Range,

> Snoqualmie Valley.

You can see the Annotated Checklist, which was revised for the Second
Edition by Matt Bartels, at :

http://wabirdguide.org/annotated-checklist/

Jane Hadley

Seattle, WA

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