Clay-colored Sparrow - Spanish Banks Beach, BC
We occasionally get rare sparrows that stop by during migration. This little gray collared fellow was in late in the season, making himself comfortable with a mixed flock of Savanah's, Golden-crowned, White-crowned sparrows and Dark-eyed Junco down at Spanish Banks Beach. Clay-colored sparrows can be found in the eastern interior of BC, but rarely ever summer here in the Vancouver area. Most will head south to Mexico on the east side of the Rocky Mountains.