{"id":735725,"date":"2015-12-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=7091630617098c61dcea9bd961a56797"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:00:48","slug":"clay-colored-sparrow-on-canal-st-1282015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/clay-colored-sparrow-on-canal-st-1282015\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay-colored Sparrow on Canal St, 12\/8\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Dec 8, I found one of my nemesis birds for Seminole County: a Clay-colored Sparrow (White-throated Sparrow, Western Kingbird, and Yellow-breasted Chat are next on my list). I’ve been trying to find one here for years. It’s been hanging out here for about a week now, so I’m hopeful that it might winter here (along with a Field Sparrow, also somewhat unusual in Central Florida).<\/p>\n

My favorite sparrow spot is really just a fence line with lots of dense vegetation around it bordering a cow pasture. It’s not a park; it’s really just a little spot along the side of the road. I sometimes worry about the local residents being irritated by my presence.<\/p>\n

However, the “locals” don’t seem to mind me at all, and sometimes they stop and chat for a minute as they drive by. On the day I found the sparrow, I was hoping to photograph an Ash-throated Flycatcher that my friend had found just a couple days earlier.<\/p>\n

I was striking out on that bird when this little sparrow popped up and posed for me. I’ll take that trade any day of the week.<\/p>\n

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Clay-colored Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clay-colored Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clay-colored Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clay-colored Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve never really thought of this species (really, this genus) as being terribly attractive. The Spizella genus has nothing on Ammodramus. But this particular bird to mee seems quite smart-looking. I may need to reconsider my view of things here.<\/p>\n

As you can see in the photos where the sparrow is on the ground, taken today, someone put out seed for it. I guess another birder wants it to stick around for the winter.<\/p>\n

But unfortunately, I can’t claim with that photo that the bird wasn’t baited. However, the first two photos are from the day I found the bird, and it was not baited or called in.<\/p>\n

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On Dec 8, I found one of my nemesis birds for Seminole County: a Clay-colored Sparrow (White-throated Sparrow, Western Kingbird, and Yellow-breasted Chat are next on my list). I’ve been trying to find one here for years. It’s been hanging out here for about a week now, so I’m hopeful that it might winter here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2196309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/12-08\/i-jj5qCxV\/1\/L\/_MG_7631-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2581,8100,3513,2648,4753],"class_list":["post-735725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-ash-throated-flycatcher","tag-clay-colored-sparrow","tag-field-sparrow","tag-white-throated-sparrow","tag-yellow-breasted-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}