Thursday, October 17, 2024

Good prospect sparrows

Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) (1)
- Reported Oct 17, 2024 12:00 by Maureen Matthews
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199256709
- Comments: "As reported, in the Nethermead tree enclosures. Super close up looks at small, gray buffy sparrow with white supercilium, plain lores, and gray nape."

Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1)
- Reported Oct 17, 2024 12:45 by karen o'hearn
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199259764
- Comments: "Ballfields, on quaker cemetery side.  Superficially similar to a sosp. Had bold, white eyering, and slightly lighter and crisper looking.   Nice, close look for about 5 seconds until it flew into a tree and I was unable to relocate."


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