[EBB Sightings] Red (form) Fox Sparrow

EBBers,

This morning along the paved trail 
on the south side of Meeker Tidal 
Creek in Richmond there was a RED 
(form) FOX SPARROW feeding with 
crowned sparrows and our usual 
brown (aka sooty) form Fox Sparrows 
in the trail side shrubs across 
from carport # 176.  The breast and 
flank streaking on this bird were 
more a dark brown, not the red 
color of the tail, rump, and 
upperparts.  The strong rufous on 
gray facial pattern, white throat, 
and faint wing bars were apparent. 
At low tide a CLAPPER RAIL was 
about 100 yards upstream from where 
Meeker Tidal Creek passes under the 
Bay Shoreline Trail bridge.

Good birding,

Bob Battagin
Oakland, CA