Archive for the tag 'sparrows'

Sep 12 2009

Lark Sparrow at Fort Miles, Cape Henlopen State Park, DE

Published by jeff under Birding, Delmarva, Slower Delaware

I was out walking the dog around 9:30 AM this morning when I got a phone call from Forrest Rowland, who is once again scanning the skies over the Cape Henlopen Hawk Watch. He said that he had heard from Derek Stoner that the Delmarva Ornithological Society group Derek was leading on their annual Cape May field [...]

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Oct 27 2008

Fourteen Sparrows

Published by jeff under Bird Identification, Birding, Delmarva, Slower Delaware

We had a terrifically successful sparrow trip yesterday, tallying 14 species of Emberizids (the family that includes New World sparrows, as well as things like towhees, longspurs, juncoes & some of the buntings).

photo by Jim White
We began at Indian River Inlet, where the marsh was very, very good to us. We enjoyed soul-satisfying studies of [...]

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