Subject: [Tweeters] Harris's Sparrow in Birch Bay
Date: Mon May 11 20:54:10 PDT 2020
From: Eric Ellingson - abriteway at hotmail.com

If the photo at the link is indeed a Harris's Sparrow it will be a new life bird.
We spotted it out our dining room window under a feeder about 7:30. That explains the noisy poor recording.
It took us a long time to find a name for this bird. We were all over the guide book and finally found a close match.
At first, we considered some sort of Junco/sparrow hybrid.

The feeders just have sunflower seeds. It was in a mix of 3 male Black-headed Grossbeaks above, a couple of White-crowned Sparrows and about 10 Purple Finch on the ground with it.

Anyone who's familiar with these and can confirm or state otherwise with suggested ID's it would be appreciated.

https://flic.kr/p/2j1ciRh

Bird on.

Eric Ellingson

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