[EBB Sightings] Red (form) Fox Sparrow

Folks- Please give BETTER DIRECTIONS  if you are posting about an area that 
is not well known to birders ! I wasted my time today, seeing only lots of 
gated condos on Marina Bay and the Bio-Rad- on Regatta- no trespassing sign 
and workers in front of the building today.

the trail side shrubs across
from carport # 176.  The breast and
flank streaking on this bird were
more a dark brown, not the red
color of the tail, rump, and
upperparts.  The strong rufous on
gray facial pattern, white throat,
and faint wing bars were apparent.
At low tide a CLAPPER RAIL was
about 100 yards upstream from where
Meeker Tidal Creek passes under the
Bay Shoreline Trail bridge.


From: "Bob Battagin" 
To: 
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Red (form) Fox Sparrow
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:11:35 -0800

EBBers,

This morning along the paved trail on the south side of Meeker Tidal Creek 
in Richmond there was a RED (form) FOX SPARROW feeding with crowned sparrows 
and our usual brown (aka sooty) form Fox Sparrows in the trail side shrubs 
across from carport # 176.  The breast and flank streaking on this bird were 
more a dark brown, not the red color of the tail, rump, and upperparts.  The 
strong rufous on gray facial pattern, white throat, and faint wing bars were 
apparent. At low tide a CLAPPER RAIL was about 100 yards upstream from where 
Meeker Tidal Creek passes under the Bay Shoreline Trail bridge.

Good birding,

Bob Battagin
Oakland, CA

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