Tyler McClain reports the Harris’s Sparrow foraging with mixed sparrow flock this morning at Sackett Cemetery, as discovered by Nancy Anderson yesterday. 



“Lakeside Marblehead, coordinates: 41.5299 and -82.7868 Found in the small cemetery, east of Big Boppers Restaurant on the south side of the road!”





Jen Brumfield

Cleveland, Ohio 



> On Dec 31, 2017, at 4:57 PM, Nancy Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Today I was on my way home from stopping at a few places at East Harbor SP this afternoon and decided to drive into Sackett Cemetery on Route 163 across from Channel Grove and a funeral home. I was there from 3:36 to 3:54pm. This is a very small cemetery and I have never seen anything there other than House Finch and Juncos but a family member was buried there earlier this year.  I pulled into the furthest west entrance and headed half way back.  I stopped when I heard what I thought was a Junco fly from one tree to another.  When I saw a White-crowned Sparrow in a pine tree I decided not to cut through on the small connector road but to go to the back of cemetery and come back halfway on the east side of cemetery.  I was parked just back from a gravestone "Butler" near a small pine tree.  There was a taller pine tree just east of a "Wood" gravestone which was further west.  A small group of six or seven birds were flying between these trees but most of my pictures were in the taller pine tree.  There were two or three Juncos, Amer. Tree Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow and one 1st winter Harris's Sparrow.  I don't have time to do the pictures right now but it had a black v-shaped bibb, white breast, white neck under bill (also lined with black) black streaks side of breast, pink bill, tan sides of faces and neck, black cap starting at bill, very slight eyering, gray below tan back of neck. Slight brown mark behind eye.  It held its tail up a lot, fed under pine tree on ground with other sparrows and moved through the pine tree and sat and posed on tree.  The strange thing is I also thought I had one this fall on Alexander Pike in Marblehead but only got a brief view before it disappeared from hiding in a pine tree near a bunch of rocks.  I will put pictures on Flickr later this evening.  

> Nancy Anderson, Danbury Twp,Lakeside Marblehead areahttps://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a/

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