[birding] Fwd: Fox Sparrow at E.E. Wilson (Benton Co)

[Marcia F. Cutler]

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> From: marciafcutler at comcast.net
> Date: July 1, 2010 3:05:41 PM PDT
> To: marciafcutler at comcast.net
> Subject: Fox Sparrow at E.E. Wilson (Benton Co)
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> This report was mailed for Marcia F. Cutler by http://birdnotes.net
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> Date: July 1, 2010
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> Location: E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area (main tract), Benton County, Oregon
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> Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
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> Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 90%
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> Precipitation: none
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> This morning I walked the NE portion of EE Wilson.  I encountered
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> quite a few 
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> bird families.  SPOTTED TOWHEES in particular were just about
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> everywhere 
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> and at every stage including juveniles still with noticeable gapes,
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> older juvies 
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> and parents still carrying food.
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> The road north from the east side of the angler's pond had 4 YELLOW-
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> BREASTED CHATS along it (one was just to the north past the end).
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> However, the most notable bird was an out-of-place/out-of-season FOX
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> SPARROW.  I pished this bird up along the trail to the Angler's Pond,
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> about 50 
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> yards south of where the power lines cross.  It looked pretty much
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> like the 
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> Sooty type with dark head and back, the crown being a bit reddisher
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> and the 
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> auricular areas a bit grayer.  The mandibles however were entirely
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> gray and, 
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> perhaps, a bit on the large side.
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> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
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> Pied-billed Grebe                   3 [1] 
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> Great Blue Heron                    1
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> Turkey Vulture                      1
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> Osprey                              1
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> Red-tailed Hawk                     2
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> Band-tailed Pigeon                  2
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> Northern Flicker                   10
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> Western Wood-Pewee                 12
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> Western Scrub-Jay                   2
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> Common Raven                        4
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> Tree Swallow                        2
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> Black-capped Chickadee             12
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> Bushtit                            20
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> Brown Creeper                       1
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> Bewick's Wren                      10
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> Swainson's Thrush                  12
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> American Robin                     12 [2] 
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> Wrentit                             1
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> European Starling                  20
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> Cedar Waxwing                       9
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> Orange-crowned Warbler              1
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> Yellow Warbler                      3
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> Black-throated Gray Warbler         1
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> Common Yellowthroat                14
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> Yellow-breasted Chat                4
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> Western Tanager                     2 [3] 
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> Spotted Towhee                     30 [4] 
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> Fox Sparrow                         1 [5] 
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> Song Sparrow                       16
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> Black-headed Grosbeak              10 [6] 
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> Red-winged Blackbird                1
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> Purple Finch                        2
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> American Goldfinch                  4
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> Footnotes:
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> [1]  PBGR: Adult w/2 stripy teenagers
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> [2]  AMRO: incl. 2 immatures
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> [3]  WETA: Adult male with female/imm.
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> [4]  SPTO: very abundant, incl. 3 imm.  Adult also seen carrying 
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>     food
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> [5]  FOSP: Sooty type but with entirely gray mandibles
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> [6]  BHGR: All those seen were female/imm.
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> Total number of species seen: 33
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