Checklist S25248948

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Owner Gil Ewing

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  0.1 mi

Checklist Comments

Success in viewing the reported possible Black-chinned Sparrow found by Mark Saywer this afternoon. I didn't do much other birding, just tried to study this unfamiliar sparrow.

Observations

  1. Number observed:  9

    Details

    Flock flying over toward the west.

  2. Number observed:  X

    Details

    Heard only.

  3. Number observed:  X

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    Several hundred had lined themselves up along the electrical wires over the hay field just to the north of Babel Slough, and could be seen coming and going from there.

  4. Number observed:  1
  5. Number observed:  1
  6. Number observed:  2
  7. Number observed:  1
  8. Number observed:  2
  9. Number observed:  1
  10. Number observed:  1
  11. Number observed:  3
  12. Number observed:  50

    Details

    An estimated number. All were flying towards the east.

  13. Number observed:  8
  14. Number observed:  1
  15. Number observed:  1
  16. Number observed:  X

    Details

    Large, tight flocks were flying over.

  17. Number observed:  4
  18. Number observed:  2
  19. Number observed:  2
  20. Number observed:  2
  21. Number observed:  1

    Details

    Juvenile. Very small, dull gray sparrow with patterned brown back and wings, darker brown upper tail. Crown was slightly darker. Upper mandible gray but lower mandible grayish pink. Legs gray. The bird hopped confidingly at the roadside and was flushed multiple times by passing vehicles up into the nearby trees, but kept returning to the roadside. See photo:

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  22. Number observed:  8
  23. Number observed:  5
  24. Number observed:  2
  25. Number observed:  1
  26. Number observed:  2
  27. Number observed:  1
  28. Number observed:  2
  29. blackbird sp.

    Number observed:  X
  30. Number observed:  1
  31. Number observed:  2
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