Very soon after I got to Swan Harbor, around 10:45, I found a Nelson's Sharp-Tailed Sparrow about 100 yards west of the blind. It popped up to say hello and hung around the edge of the cattails for 3-5 minutes, affording magnificent views. About a minute after I found it, Elaine Beery and Jean Wheeler joined me--along with a fellow from D.C. for whom the bird was a lifer. Eventually the bird flew across the path and disappeared into some dark green grasses, and that was that. An extraordinary few minutes! Most cooperative Nelly I've ever come across.

Tim Houghton
(Glen Arm)
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