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Monday at Mason's Farm
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Monday at Mason's Farm
- From: "James Bloor" <j.bloor@cellbio.duke.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:36:27 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
My brother has been visiting from Scotland and yesterday was his last day so I
took him out to Mason's Farm for some birding. We had a pretty successful
morning particularly in terms of Sparrows. Amongst the usual culprits we had a
VESPER SPARROW and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW. We also had a sparrow that we need
advice on. Basically it was a pale, buffy, flat-headed sparrow that showed an
obvious eye ring. The most striking feature was its very plain face - the
eyering and a darker eyebrow were the only markings. There was no obvious crown
stripe and the bird was mostly unstreaked below with just a few smudgy streaks
on its flanks. Does anyone have any ideas?
Otherwise we found two female Purple Finch and my first Hermit Thrush of this
winter.
Other birds of note this weekend were a distant group of Scaup on Jordan Lake,
seen from the Observation Platform.
Jim Bloor, Ph.D
Department of Cell Biology,
Duke University Medical Center,
DUMC Box 3709,
307 Nanaline Duke Building,
Research Drive,
Durham, NC 27710-7599.
tel. (919) 681-8080
fax. (919) 684-5481
email j.bloor@cellbio.duke.edu