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Shoot 2025-07-21-142741

In this gallery I've got a few photos from the coast I forgot to include in the last gallery. We've also had a few visits from female turkeys with their chicks, and I was able to get some photos in our yard. The final birding walk in this gallery includes a strange sparrow that caught my eye. Any sparrow with a mostly plain breast (aside from White- and Golden-crowned Sparrows) is unusual around here, so I took a few photos. I eventually settled upon it being an unusual Savannah Sparrow rather than something more rare. Still a nifty bird.

My "birds in review" collages can be found here.

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10:15AM Sunday July 06, 2025

10:18AM Sunday July 06, 2025

Bald Eagle

10:18AM Sunday July 06, 2025

Great Egret

10:42AM Sunday July 06, 2025

Black Oystercatcher

10:57AM Sunday July 06, 2025

Pelagic Cormorant

4:31PM Sunday July 06, 2025

Brown Pelican (Juvenile), Western Gull

4:32PM Sunday July 06, 2025

Brown Pelican (Juvenile), Western Gull

4:32PM Sunday July 06, 2025

Brown Pelican (Juvenile), Western Gull

4:32PM Sunday July 06, 2025

Brown Pelican (Juvenile), Western Gull

4:32PM Sunday July 06, 2025

Brown Pelican (Juvenile), Brown Pelican

3:07PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:07PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:07PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:07PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile)

3:07PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile)

3:08PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile)

3:08PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile)

3:13PM Thursday July 17, 2025

3:15PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:17PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:17PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:18PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:18PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:18PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:18PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:18PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey (Juvenile), Wild Turkey

3:20PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:20PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:20PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:20PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:20PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:21PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

3:22PM Thursday July 17, 2025

Wild Turkey

6:45AM Saturday July 19, 2025

Savannah Sparrow

6:45AM Saturday July 19, 2025

Savannah Sparrow

6:45AM Saturday July 19, 2025

Savannah Sparrow

6:45AM Saturday July 19, 2025

Savannah Sparrow

6:45AM Saturday July 19, 2025

Savannah Sparrow

This sparrow doesn't match terribly closely with anything, but Savannah Sparrow seems to be the best. I'm not terribly familiar with what immature Savannah Sparrows look like, but this was the same size as a Savannah and hanging out with a few of them. It seems to have some Lincoln's Sparrow buffy color and fine markings on the breast, but moreso has the expected facial pattern of a Savannah (minus the yellow above the eye). The bill seems to fit Savannah. It's too small for a Vesper, and the tail isn't long enough for Clay-colored. The breast also isn't match for Clay-colored. Aside from the flanks, it matches nicely with the "Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow photos in the Macaulay Library, but those are found on Sable Island off the east coast of Nova Scotia this time of year... so I'm not sure what's going on with this bird. Again, it's likely just an immature Savannah Sparrow, similar to this (minus the yellow above the eye) or this (again, aside from the yellow).