New one !!!

[jimmy]

An easy one this time.

Get ya book out Matthew :)

http://www.feathered-friends.co.uk/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=104&stc=1

[Waxbillman]

hello Jimmy

my book does show the birds rump, it looks like so kind of sparrow, i guess the field sparrow,

matt

[PAUL HEARN]

Hi Jimmy,

My guess is Fox Sparrow.

Paul H.:wink:

[Waxbillman]

i'll have to change my guess to what you said Paul, i have looked again in my book and i had missed that one:roll: it does look like a Fox sparrow, the latin name being Passerella iliaca.


matthew

[jimmy]

Well done Paul & Matthew :)

Glad you got that Paul, its not nice having forks stuck in you :razz:

Bird info -

Description
6-7 1/2" (15-19 cm). A chubby, large sparrow, either dusky brown, or slate-colored in the West, or rich rufous in the East, often so dark that no back pattern can be discerned. Heavy streaking of underparts converges at midbreast into a large brown spot. Heavy bill with lighter-colored lower mandible, slightly notched rust-colored tail, and rounded head outline. Heavier than a House Sparrow.

Habitat
Thickets and edges of coniferous, mixed, or second-growth forests or chaparral. In winter, particularly in the East, weedy pastures and brushy roadsides.

Nesting
4 or 5 pale green eggs, densely spotted with red-brown, in a thick-walled cup of leaves in grass and moss, concealed in vegetation on or near the ground.

Range
Breeds from Aleutians and mainland Alaska east to northern Quebec and Maritimes and south to southern California and Colorado. Winters south from British Columbia and across southern United States, and locally farther north.

[kenny]

hi jimmy

looks like a sparrow with a sore bum!

ken

[jimmy]

Probably would have one if it ate the same kebab i ate last night Kenny :)

Talk about Matthews Grackles :razz:

[kenny]

i have a touch of them this morning,i think i will have to rush to the toilet!:razz:


ken

[PAUL HEARN]

Hi Jimmy,

I'm very proud of my guess on this one because I didn't have to trawl through my books this time and get it wrong:lol:.

By the way most of my books are now sealed in boxes in the loft, so please make the next an easy one as I can't refer to my books as Matthew can.

Paul.:grin: