Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:34:36 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Daniel F. McDonald" Subject: Re: Clay-colored Sparrow(s?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We also checked out the clay-colored sparrow on Mon. and we also had both the clay-colored and a field sparrow singing simultaneously from the same tree and in the top third of the tree. Georgia & Dan McDonald Towson, Balt Co dangeo@erols.com Bob Hartman wrote: > Hi Arlene (and anybody else interested) > > That certainly could have been a Field Sparrow we saw in > the tree with the Clay-colored. There were lot of them > around, although we never saw one near the Clay-colored. > Frankly, it didn't occur to us that it could be a Field in > the tree. > > According to Rising's sparrow book, it's fairly surprising > to see either Field or C-c Sparrow that high. Rising says > the C-c sings 0.3 - 2 meters above ground; we saw this guy > singing at least 10-12 meters up in the tree (after we had > seen him sing repeatedly at a more conventional altitude at > a number of locations), > and the second bird also was seen at a comparable height. > > Rising says the C-c is reported to hybridize with Chipping > and Brewer's Sparrows, so maybe also with Field, another > Spizella. > > Additional opinions and (especially) observations welcome! > > Bob Hartman > Colesville, MD > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================