American Tree Sparrow, plate by John James Audubon
Audubon, Birds of America, plate 188, as “Tree Sparrow”
Songbirds

American Tree Sparrow

Spizelloides arborea
“A few additional notes from the field include, on Thanksgiving around dusk on Two Lights Road a Woodcock flew right over my mothers-in-law’s head and on December 9 along the Gull Crest Trails I came across a small flock of seed foraging American Tree Sparrows.”
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Dec 21, 2022

A few additional notes from the field include, on Thanksgiving around dusk on Two Lights Road a Woodcock flew right over my mothers-in-law’s head and on December 9 along the Gull Crest Trails I came across a small flock of seed foraging American Tree Sparrows.

Jan 17, 2024

A couple additional mentionings from the field and yard include, on January 1 I heard the silvery tsee-ler winter feeding twitter call of an American Tree Sparrow in a neighbor’s field.

Apr 10, 2024

On March 24 I spotted a lone American Tree Sparrow on the town green and on March 26 I finally caught up with the reported Brant geese foraging the choppy rising tide for eelgrass and auqatic vegetation in Kettle Cove.