LARK SPARROW 1 Minden Rd, HU
Chris's eBird description: "Quite a young bird, still in streaked juvenal plumage. large sparrow with a long ish tail, erect posture, strong legs. Facial pattern like 5 o'clock shadow version of adults. Dark lower border of auriculars & malar stripe boldest, creating a double moustache effect-. two pale buff/whitish wingbars, the greater scondary one bolder, but not glaring. pale patch at base of primaries visible on folded wing. White tips to outer tail feathers on a full, dark tail, creating white cornered effect evident when the bird flushed. breast clear, but back & scaps still well streaked. eyebrow paler, hint of an eye-ring eye surround, base of bill pale. A neat plumage, and one not often seen in migration. Bird was hanging out with a a few families of savannahs, & horned larks ina perfect bit of habitat- bare ground & gravel roads, with sparse vegetation- also, a chunk was just tilled for tiling so excelletn forage for barren-ground species. Also, not so sure about MI, but this is precisely when they start turning up on the east coast, mid-aug-early sept being peak. Several phone-scoped photos obtained, they are perfectly crappy, but you can tell what it is."
Chris's eBird description: "Quite a young bird, still in streaked juvenal plumage. large sparrow with a long ish tail, erect posture, strong legs. Facial pattern like 5 o'clock shadow version of adults. Dark lower border of auriculars & malar stripe boldest, creating a double moustache effect-. two pale buff/whitish wingbars, the greater scondary one bolder, but not glaring. pale patch at base of primaries visible on folded wing. White tips to outer tail feathers on a full, dark tail, creating white cornered effect evident when the bird flushed. breast clear, but back & scaps still well streaked. eyebrow paler, hint of an eye-ring eye surround, base of bill pale. A neat plumage, and one not often seen in migration. Bird was hanging out with a a few families of savannahs, & horned larks ina perfect bit of habitat- bare ground & gravel roads, with sparse vegetation- also, a chunk was just tilled for tiling so excelletn forage for barren-ground species. Also, not so sure about MI, but this is precisely when they start turning up on the east coast, mid-aug-early sept being peak. Several phone-scoped photos obtained, they are perfectly crappy, but you can tell what it is."
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