[obol] A VERY unexpected visitor!

[Sheila]

I was scoping around the yard this morning and saw two very unexpected birds
 first was a GOLD-CROWN SPARROW and the other was an adult HARRIS'S SPARROW
!!
 
It's stay was too brief for me to get it's photo but I do know a HARRIS'S
SPARROW  when I see one.
It now had a black throat and upper breast as well as the tan head, dark cap
and pink beak and feet.
 
I thought all the GOLD-CROWNS  and it's lost HARRIS'S SPARROW had by now
flown north.
 
Also seen this week were LAZULI BUNTINGS, AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES, BREWERS
BLACK BIRD, ANNA'S and ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD, CHESNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE which
is breeding here in a nestbox, AMERICAN ROBIN, SONG SPARROW, WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, TREE and VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, HOUSE FINCHES, flocks of
BAND-TAILED PIGEONS, EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES , MORNING DOVES,  and one
TURTLE DOVE.
 
The TURTLE DOVE is much paler than the EURASIAN COLLARD DOVE and it's
smaller, the nape of the neck had a weak crescent and the entire tail was
pale not just the end.
 
Flying north I've been seeing flocks of BROWN PELICANS.
 
On the Winchuck river I saw a duck but a man walking his dog by the river
scared it off before I had a chance to get a scope on it- -AAARRRRRRGGGG!!!!
 
Off McVay wayside I saw a flock of PELAGIC CORMERANTS.
 
The only HOUSE SPARROWS seen were in my bird cage!
 
Sheila from Harbor Oregon