Date:         Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:35:04 -0400
Reply-To:     Patty McLean <plm108@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Patty McLean <plm108@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Clay Colored Sparrow at Cochran Shoals 10/19

At the Cochran Shoals sparrow field today, Johnnie Green, Kathy Miller and
I set our binos on a lovely CLAY COLORED SPARROW. We spent some time
observing the bird and noting the field marks, and afterwards poured
through several field guides and I'm now certain it was a CCSP. Some of the
distinguishing characteristics included the brown cheek outlined by darker
postocular and moustachial stripes, distinct lateral throat stripes with a
white throat and white between the lateral and moustachial stripes; gray
nape; buffy breastband with very pale steaking in the most interesting
pattern. When I got home, I found a note I'd written in my 'inside'
National Geographic that I had a 'probable' CCSP last year at Cochran
Shoals on 10/20/2007. Bingo. Now I will officially count the bird as a
LIFER. It was seen at the back of the sparrow field near the Willows.

Patty McLean
Tucker GA

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