Harris' Sparrow Fairfield Island December 22

[Dave]

I saw a Harris' Sparrow this morning north of the intersection of Fairfield and Kitchen Roads. I assume this the bird first found by Mike Toochin about a week ago. I did check, but no phoebe to report in the area.

[denisknopp]

I have been out there twice with no luck, I think I saw it the first time. The second time it was snowing hard. I left seeds for them both time hoping they would stay around.

[denisknopp]

I finally got to see and take photos of the HASP. It is going to a feeder north of the Fairfield road on Kitchen road. It is on the left hand side.
Denis

[Dave]

The Harris's Sparrow continues at the feeder along Kitchen Road. I again had a nice talk with the home owner who seems honoured to be hosting a local rarity and updates me once in a while about the cars that stop and look at his feeder. The feeder is visible from the road. He throws some seed on the ground next to the telephone pole on the north side of his yard and that is where the bird usually shows up.









He has quite a birdy yard and is right across the road from the ditch where the Black Phoebe was. Neat area.

[Chris]

Nice to see it sticking around. Nice shots Dave.

It might stay there for a fair amount of time.

[murraybrown]

Those are excellent shots Dave. They really show the size and colour of the bird.

[denisknopp]

Great shots Dave. I must have just mist you we were looking ha the HASP around 1:30 today.
Dave any idea way my photos are so small when I post and yours fill the page?

[Dave]

Thanks Chris and Murray, The Harris's Sparrow does make a White-crowned Sparrow look small in the photo . Denis, I resize the pictures to medium size before I upload them to photobucket. That may be the step needed to get your photos a bit bigger.

[Chris]

Denis, just to add to what Dave said, this might help with posting photos on the site.

bcbirding.proboards.com/thread/1096/post-photographs-images

I use the webstire called Flickr to upload my photos and I find that quicker than photobucket but it is personal preference.

[denisknopp]

Thanks Chris and Dave, photos a little larger would be better.