ML39335191
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Observation details
I was watching a flock of Harris's and White-crowned Sparrows when I saw a small pale tan sparrow with a very short tail weakly fly up from the weeds by the edge of the wheat field and drop into a small patch of tall native prairie grass near the bridge. My first thought was that it was obviously a Le Conte's, but then as I approached it flew up and perched in a young American Elm providing great looks through binoculars and a few pictures before flying again, after which I couldn't find it. I had several minutes of looking at it through binoculars in which I really tried to find the markings of Le Conte's but simply couldn't. The breast and sides were clean buffy with absolutely no streaking, and no dark lateral throat-stripe. Also noted lack of purplish nape(gray instead), gray lores(yellowish instead) and auriculars, white edged tertials and bold stripes on back. Also saw that this bird had a bold complete white eye-ring, large tanish bill(not gray), two dark auricular spots, white median crown stripe and overall non-contrasting markings. I zoomed in and examined each one of these photos and am very confident of the identity of this late migrant.
Technical information
- Model
- FinePix S8600 S8650 S8630
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 162 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.9
- Shutter speed
- 1/150 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.73 MB