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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Freaky Song Sparrows in Western Washington???
Keywords: HELP!
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Date: 12 May 91 02:47:43 GMT
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In article <72187@microsoft.UUCP> cindyri@microsoft.UUCP (Cynthia RISKIN) writes:
>Location:  Whidbey Island in western Washington state
>Habitat:  low grasses next to marsh (probably salt water)
>across the street from Puget Sound
>Behavior:  territorial; obviously nesting in grass
>Description:  Sparrowlike; mottled brown back (sparrowlike; surprise), 
>much yellow (ochre, really), ....

Almost certainly a Savannah Sparrow.  I don't think that a Song Sparrow
would be out in a marsh, and I don't ever remember seeing a yellowish SS,
whereas Savannah's are generally yellowish about the head at least.

David Mark
dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu