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• Swamp Sparrow - Wednesday 4 March 2009

Spent a few hours at St Marks NWR today with Mary & Susan and totaled 62 species including this very obliging Swamp Sparrow who was difficult to digiscope but I did manage this one ok-ish from above shot. Taking pictures down there before the evening ain't that great due to the light conditions but the birding more than compensates. There were still a few ducks on Lighthouse Pond including Canvasback, American Wigeon, both Scaup, both Teal, Redhead, Bufflehead and Northern Shoveler. There were about 20 million Myrtle Warblers, who will have thankfully departed for the north soon! We did have pretty close looks at one furtive Sora. Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana

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