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[Ontbirds] Harris's Sparrow near Morrisburg

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Geof Burbidge
Sat, Dec 14, 2019 1:55 PM

Yesterday at dusk a first winter Harris’s Sparrow was seen three times in 10 minutes visiting a roadside scatter of seeds on the ground at the edge the north side of Willbruck Drive, Ault Island, across from fence at house 14122.  Info from a local birder led us to believe it may have been present for a while.  We observed it approaching from and returning to from a tangle of brush behind the seed scatter.  Three American Tree Sparrows were also present.

Willbruck Drive is off Ault Island Road, south from HWY 2 just east of Upper Canada Village.

H/T to Jacques Bouvier

Geof and Anne Burbidge.

Yesterday at dusk a first winter Harris’s Sparrow was seen three times in 10 minutes visiting a roadside scatter of seeds on the ground at the edge the north side of Willbruck Drive, Ault Island, across from fence at house 14122. Info from a local birder led us to believe it may have been present for a while. We observed it approaching from and returning to from a tangle of brush behind the seed scatter. Three American Tree Sparrows were also present. Willbruck Drive is off Ault Island Road, south from HWY 2 just east of Upper Canada Village. H/T to Jacques Bouvier Geof and Anne Burbidge.