Sparrow in soy

[James Kimball]

I spent some time this evening (c. 5:30-6:30) in the farm land and marsh area north of the Geneseo airfield. Of special interest were good numbers of Sparrows in the unharvested soybean fields (some hundreds of acres), adjacent to the hemp pond marsh area - now mostly dried up). Most seem to be Savannah Sparrows, some chasing about and diving into the soy plants - I could only estimate what I was seeing as 20+; in the larger field likely many more. Others included a dozen or so Song Sparrows and at least 3 Swamp Sparrows and 2 Lincoln’s Sparrows. It certainly is a challenge trying to pick out and in some cases trying to photograph sparrows in a soy field field (I got one Lincoln’s in a modest photo).
While was concentrating on the sparrow, flocks of Redwings (300+) were flying into the reed grass to roost.

Jim Kimball
kim...@geneseo.edu