ML285803941

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

*Rare. Overall very drab gray sparrow and with similarities to CCSP but far more drab (with some brown-gray, but no buffy color on flanks, breast or face like CCSP) . Photos show the striping on head (with thin medial stripe of BRSP & without white median crown stripe of CCSP); stripes in gray nape at back of nape consistent with BRSP; complete, rather conspicuous eye ring of BRSP and small bill. Given the push of western birds into the area, I have been trying for BRSP in different places, and I was playing the BRSP song when this bird flew in while associating with FISP. First spotted right along the road when it flew in (and my immediate thought was BRSP when seeing the overall drabness and the noted field marks above). It dropped down and I lost it, and I walked around the roadside tree-line to try to find it in better light, and that's when I got these photos (in very bright sunlight). A little more mustache contrast shown in my full sunlight photos than I've seen on some BRSP in the past (it did not seem that high of contrast in the field), and this contrast is still within limits I see in field guides and other photographs of the species. I welcome discussion on the identification, and I do have many more photos.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D500

ISO

4000

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/6400 sec

Dimensions

2345 pixels x 1564 pixels

Original file size

808.78 KB