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gardenpom Melbourne, FL Apr 15, 2009

A Sparrow I hope.

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Apr 15, 2009

Not quite sure what to make of this! Best match is Clay-colored Sparrow, but that shouldn't really be in Florida. Chipping would be much more likely in Florida, but that has an obvious dark line in front of the eye, which your bird doesn't have.

Resin

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DonnaB Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b) Apr 15, 2009

Resin look at western Sparrows. We do get western birds on occassion after big storms coming from the west and we have had 2 huge ones lasting for day these last 2 weeks

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OldNed Merritt Island, FL(Zone 10a) Apr 15, 2009

Looks like a Clay-colored...field guides say rare for here but we get individuals pretty regularly (I live near gardenpom)

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gardenpom Melbourne, FL Apr 15, 2009

That's what I thought too, but my field guide book does not list them for Florida. Thanks for the help.

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gardenpom Melbourne, FL Apr 15, 2009

This is the first pic I got of him.

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pelletory Marlton, NJ Apr 15, 2009

Well they don't list birds for a lot of states and they still wind up there.

We still have the Green-tailed Towhee here in NJ. Their supposed to be way out west. :-)

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