Sunday June 6, 2010 I was out looking for Yellow-billed Magpies and I went out to the locked gate at the southern end of Long Canyon Road near Sisquoc. I saw a large Aimophila sparrow. It had a rufous crown. It had a large dark tail. It was singing and skylarking off a barb-wire fence. There was a large dry oat pasture with some cows. My first thought was a Rufous-crowned Sparrow but it was not acting like one. Not the usual habitat either. I took two bad pictures and it took off and I could not find it again. I had never heard of a rufous morph of the Cassin’s Sparrow. As this winter was an El Nino a Cassin’s Sparrow would be expected.
http://www.pbase.com/dadas115/image/113901929 .
It looked like that. And sort of like this:
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/leica/uploaded_images/CASP-AZ-080507_02-flick-792604.jpg .
My pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lawofficeofmarkbrown/MarkSBirds#5490379494666936050 .
http://picasaweb.google.com/lawofficeofmarkbrown/MarkSBirds#5490379493487939426 .
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