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Posted by bill meikle on September 4, 2009 at 1:29 PM
ID Help
Please help me identify this bird (while I search the books). Taken this morning in Rocky Mountain National Park at 8 or 9000 ft in a valley. I'm sure it's easy if you know it, but I don't.

thanks

Bill
Posted by Doug Backlund on September 4, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Lincoln's Sparrow!
Posted by Jim DeWitt on September 4, 2009 at 1:50 PM
It's probably a juvenile Lincoln's Sparrow, Bill. I'd be happier with the ID if the legs were darker...
Posted by bill meikle on September 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM
God you guy's are good! And I didn't even know that Lincoln had a sparrow! Looking at Sibley you would appear to be right. Thanks a bunch.
Posted by bill meikle on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM
If you check out my Blog and click on the More Photos Here.. link you can see the other shots I got today in RMNP, blue grouse, red-naped sapsucker etc. FYI.