[birding] no Henslow's

[rich armstrong]

1. on the theory that doug's original sighting was probably a henslow's 
sparrow nanette & i did another walk through "the" field as well as 
adjoining fields.
2. it is somewhat depressing that in now 5 times spending an hour in "the" 
field walking on every grass clump and through the canary grass in every 
direction, etc, we have not flushed or seen any sparrow at all in that 
field. we saw voles (or whatever little things with no feathers scurry into 
a hole) and garter snakes, but not a sparrow.
3. north of doug's marker nanette flushed a lincoln's and an unknown strong 
flying light colored longer tailed sparrow that was definitely not a 
candidate.
4. so if there is a henslow's there it is much sneakier than henslow's in 
fields in texas were.
5. i think we are done with that field now, but i wanted to give it 1 last 
chance. hopefully someone else will do better.
Rich Armstrong
541-753-1978