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Re: Clay colored Sparrow in Cecil County

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Sean McCandless

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Sean McCandless

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Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:28:17 -0500

Hi all. Sorry for the late reply. When was pulling up to attempt to do a Stormwater Pond inspection today in Sunny Brook which is a neighborhood just South of Elkton, I had a small flock of sparrows picking on the ground at the spot where I needed to pull over, which is on Brookview Loop. One of the sparrows was very grayish compared to all the others. I struggled with looking thru the view finder of my camera because of the glass of the windshield. It was blurry and I couldn't see what it was. So I stepped out of the truck and everything flew except for the Grayish bird. Which was obviously the Clay colored Sparrow. When all the other birds calmed back down they all started feeding on the road side. 

Coincidently, I was just emailing Bob Ringler about a Clay colored I had a couple years ago in Southern Cecil County just on Saturday. Some times life is just strange.

Anyway,  this bird  is at the back half of a loop on the inside of the loop. There is a hidden stormwater pipe which goes under the road and another road makes a Tee at that spot which is called Sunnybrook Drive. This is an open space type spot, but again please be respectful to people who live there. I have also traditionally had White crowned Sparrows in the area across the street in the red briar hedge row.

Note in my pictures that the last 2 photographs are of the Clay colored Sparrow that was in Havre de Grace in Harford County.
http://www.smbirdphotos.com/index.cgi?do=view_photos&subcatID=93

Other birds were;
Swamp Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 2
White throated 15
Junco 5
Song  3
Savannah 2

Sean McCandless
Cecil  Bird Club President
Elkton, MD