[obol] Duelling bathers and RFI for one of them

[Diane Cavaness]

It sounds like a first-year White-crowned Sparrow. Our yard in Brookings is 
crawling with them, too.

Diane Cavaness
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcia Marvin" <mmarvin at spiritone.com>
To: "obol" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: [obol] Duelling bathers and RFI for one of them


> OBOL,
>
> A very amusing sight in my birdbath this morning.  I had just filled  it 
> and a Song Sparrow hopped in.  Another sparrow which I at first  took to 
> be a golden-crowned tried to hop in, too, but the Song  Sparrow shooed him 
> away.  Undaunted,  he returned to his side of the  bath and the two of 
> them engaged in a long exchange of alternately  splashing each other.  It 
> would have looked great accompanied by the  strains of Duelling Banjos.
>
> I mistook the second sparrow for a golden-crowned because of its two  dark 
> crown stripes, with a rusty stripe in between them.  But it was  much 
> smaller than the Song Sparrow, and even feistier, oblivious to  the other 
> bird's aggressively open beak repeatedly pointed in its  direction.. 
> Breast was gray and unmarked.  If I'd realized I didn't  know what I was 
> looking at, I'd have looked harder.  Any ideas?
>
> And the first thing I saw in the yard today was many, many juncos.   Not a 
> one for months and today they're everywhere I look.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Marcia
>
>
>
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> Marcia Marvin * mmarvin at spiritone.com * SW Portland, OR, USA
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