[Ontbirds]Eurasian Tree Sparrow -Port Burwell

[Aaron Allensen]

Birders: Saturday May 10th around 7:00 p.m. there was a single male Eurasian Tree Sparrow feeding with white-crowned and white-throated sparrows underneath my niger feeder. I observed it from about 20 feet away indoors with field glasses. It had a full chestnut head ,black mask and narrowcentral bib. There were two distinctive black spots on white cheeks.  I watched it feed and fly back into cover for perhaps 20 minutes before it dissappeared. It did not reappear the following day and was most likely moving along the lakeshore. Sunday morning despite the high winds  and blowing sand on the west beach, I spotted a single ruddy turnstone ,a dozen spotted sandpipers and several unidentified pips before heading home. Good birding. Ron Allensen Port Burwell
 
Directions
 Port Burwell is at the southern terminus of hiway 19 on lake Erie take the Ingersol exit south from 401.

 
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