Groton, Ma. Birds 10/10/07

This noon I birded Fitch's Bridge Road in Groton, walking about 1/3 mile along a dirt section that bisects agricultural fields. The fields are a mixture of corn, pumpkin and squash, with mixed weeds (in the "squash sections) and adjacent irrigaton ditchs making for excellent sparrow habitat. During October and through the autum there is generally good numbers Song, Swamp, Savanah, White-throated, Junco and Chipping Sparrows...though Chipping will be essentially gone by early Novemeber and replaced by American Tree Sparrow. Fewer numbers of Field, Lincoln's, White-crowned and an occasional Vesper maybe mixed in during October.
Savanah Sparrow(D-B)

Over the years I have found a few more species (considered unusual in this area) of sparrow and sparrow types birds in the fields. Which include Nelson's Sharp-tailed, Grasshopper, Clay-colored and Dicksissel.

Swamp Sparrow (D-B)

10/10 lunch list:
Canada Goose...2
Northern Harrier...1
Cooper's Hawk...1
Mourning Dove...8
Red-bellied Woodpecker...1
Downy Woodpecker...1
Hairy Woodpecker...1
Blue Jay...3
American Crow...5
Black-capped Chickadee...4
Tufted Titmouse...5
White-breasted Nuthatch...1
Golden-crowned Kinglet...1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet...2
Eastern Bluebird...4
American Robin...2
Gray Catbird...2
Yellow-rumped Warbler...15
Palm Warbler...8
Common Yellowthroat...1
Chipping Sparrow...40
Field Sparrow...1
Savannah Sparrow...15
Song Sparrow...15
Lincoln's Sparrow...4
Swamp Sparrow...25
White-throated Sparrow...30
White-crowned Sparrow...4
Dark-eyed Junco...2
Northern Cardinal...3
Red-winged Blackbird...300
Rusty Blackbird...6
Common Grackle...8
American Goldfinch...5