Canal St. Field, 12/4/2012

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Savannah Sparrow
It's amazing sometimes how good a relatively small area can be.  There's a field on Canal St. just south of Lake Jesup, and a fellow birder posted finding Vesper Sparrows and White-crowned Sparrows there.  So off I went to find them.  It's a very pretty area, with Orange and Palm Tree groves on both sides of the street, and then there's this plain open field.  On the southern end of the field is a barbed wire fence surrounded by grasses and other vegetation.  When I arrived, the fence was just crawling with Savannah Sparrows.  I studied the sparrows here for a while, and I was able to pick out one Vesper Sparrow and two Grasshopper Sparrows (no White-crowned).  The lighting was pretty good, so I also had fun photographing some of the other birds along the fence line, in particular a Gray Catbird, Carolina Wren and Yellow-rumped Warbler.  The Vesper Sparrow is a lifer for me, and fittingly, my first photos of it were less than what I would have liked, but you can definitely make out the white eye ring and white outer tail feathers.

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Grasshopper Sparrow
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Vesper Sparrow (l) with Savannah Sparrow (r)
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Gray Catbird
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Carolina Wren
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Yellow-rumped Warbler

Comments

  1. Looks like a really nice field! Wonderful images of course. Congratulations on the Vesper Sparrow!

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  2. Great spot. I need to work on my sparrow ID with a good spot like this to see a lot.

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  3. It appears to be a wonderful spot for sparrows and other birds. Congrats on the Vesper!

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