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Post by kingbird on Jun 15, 2013 8:13:57 GMT -6
I just learned from Dick Baxter that Cassin's Sparrows may have returned to the Fulton area. Apparently one was found on the Fulton BBS route. This is the exact location where Charles Mills found them in 2011.
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Post by birddan on Jun 16, 2013 10:38:44 GMT -6
Please post this to ARBIRD. Very few are on this forum so it isn't the quickest way to get the word out.
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Post by swampfox on Jun 17, 2013 20:15:20 GMT -6
Cross-posting to ARBirds would be fine too.
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Post by birddan on Jul 2, 2013 15:48:34 GMT -6
No one posted to ARBIRD.
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Post by swampfox on Jul 2, 2013 21:37:49 GMT -6
Hence, my suggestion that a cross-post to ARBirds would be fine. I didn't know enough detail to make the cross post. However, if the bird was reported from the same area as it was in 2011, that would be the Ashdown BBS route, wouldn't it?
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Post by birddan on Jul 3, 2013 6:46:53 GMT -6
Dick says "The Cassin's Sparrow was reported by AGFC employees Brad Townsend and Mike Harris. I haven't been down that way." Now I'm less certain about this sighting. Charles, have you tried to follow up?
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Post by swampfox on Jul 3, 2013 7:21:13 GMT -6
I have visited the area twice since early May. The first time was shortly after Dick reported a Cassin's earlier this year from southeastern Arkansas and the second time was either the day Kenny notified me of the Ashdown BBS record or the next. I neither heard nor observed a Cassin's Sparrow on either trip. Most of that little bit of Little River County, including the fields where the colony of Cassin's Sparrow occurred, was covered in winter wheat in May. Harvesting in the fields where I suspected the one pair of Cassin's building their nest was taking place at the time of my last visit. I should probably try to make at least one more trip. Given the continued drought further west, additional records for Cassin's in Arkansas wouldn't surprise me. The species isn't all that irregular a visitor/migrant to Delta/Hunt Counties which are vicinity of Commerce/Greenville, Texas. As the Cassin's would fly, Greenville might well be less than 100 miles to the west.
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