Field Sparrow, Clement Park, Jefferson Co.
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Scott Somershoe
May 12, 2020, 11:43:10 AM5/12/20
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The flurry of good birds at Clement Park continued today, 12 May 2020.
This morning while making a quick trip to Clement, I found a Field Sparrow just up the street from my house with a bunch of Chipping Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers. I barely got off any photos and it was gone. I was unprepared for a rarity on my street!
After birding around Clement, which was not very exciting today, I was walking home and the Field Sparrow jumped up into a willow on the SW corner shoreline, showed nicely for a minute and I managed some photos. It flew into the neighborhood and was gone. Kathy Holland happened to be birding around and she also got a good look before it vanished.
Yesterday I found a Palm Warbler briefly on the SW corner of Johnson Rez, but it flew after 30 sec and I never relocated it. I also had found a male Wilson's Phalarope, which was very cooperative and put on a nice show for a while. The Wilson's continued last night and my daughter and one of my boys got to see it as well (not that they cared too much, but they wanted to see it, so I'll take it!). Yesterday I had an extremely good species diversity for the park.
This SW corner of the Rez also had a Northern Waterthrush on Friday. This corner of the park has had quite a good diversity of species over the last couple weeks. I continue to be surprised by what's lurking around this fairly unassuming park.
Good birding!
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