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Observation details

Continuing rarity, state first for me. As soon as I parked at the upper lot and got out of the car to get my camera & binoculars, I was surprised to find the bird right next to me on the grassy edge of the lot at the NW corner. Pale grayish sparrow with intricate scalloped patterning on back & wings, pale eye-ring, longish beak. Very confiding, just shuffling along eating grass seeds. It was alone, didn’t see the Grasshopper Sparrow some have seen it associating with. Watched it for about 45 minutes until a Cooper’s Hawk flew over and the sparrow flew into the brush nearby. Later it reappeared by the road below the upper lot towards the lighthouse.