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[SBB] Sage Sparrows continue at Skyline Ridge OSP



This morning, 6/25/07, I went looking for the Sage Sparrow at Skyline Ridge OSP previously reported by Garth Harwood.  I found his small cairn but no sparrows.  Giving in to restless feet, I walked further along the Ridge Trail towards Alpine Pond.  Not far past Garth's cairn, perhaps .8 miles from the parking lot, is a wire safety fence where the trail crosses a rocky outcrop.  A 100' past were two SAGE SPARROWs.  They quickly disappeared, but after a while quiet pishing brought one up for close mutual inspection.  Perhaps an hour later, on my way back to the car, I had Sage Sparrow encounters on both sides of the rocky outcrop.  Always (at least) two, closely associating birds; I assume a single pair. All this was from 8:45 to 10:15.
 
Other birds: a LAZULI BUNTING; WRENTITs, PURPLE FINCHes; ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERs; two WHITE-THROATED SWIFTs flew up the valley below me.
 
Roland Kenner
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