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Posted by Vince Lucas on 16:51:57 12/04/08
Thanks to a "heads up" by former fellow Clevelander Phil Nye, who acts as a volunteer at the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, I was able to get over there today, 12/04/2008 to see and photograph a White-throated Sparrow that has been skulking around the feeders at the Bunting House. The bird is pretty secretive and disappears fairly often. It doesn't like movement around it, being very skittish. The WTSP was first found yesterday at Corkscrew by another volunteer there. This is a new bird for me for Collier County. Per the seriously out-of-date & somewhat inaccurate Collier County Audubon Field Checklist compiled by Ted Below I think back in 1991, both White-throated Sparrow and White-crowned Sparrow are listed as "V-W-4" meaning "Visitor - Winter - Occasional i.e. Not Seen Every Year". I'll say. In nearly 12 years of birding in this county, I've never seen one WTSP and no one I know who regularly birds this county has either. I have seen a WCSP once in Collier over those years. Per James Rising's __A Guide To The Identification And Natural History Of The Sparrows Of The United States And Canada__, this bird appears to be an adult 'white-striped' morph. Anyway, I have attached a photographic montage of this sparrow. Earlier this week, a Pine Siskin was also seen at the same feeders but it was not seen today.
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