Date: 5/9/26 4:04 pm From: Marv via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] 2025/2026 HARRIS’S SPARROW 12.16.25 - 5.4.26
It seems the Kent Valley HARRIS’S SPARROW may have departed to points north
for nesting. I assume that the bird is in fact gone, and also assume that
there was but 1 Harris’s Sparrow in the Kent Valley for the winter. The
bird was here for 140 days. It arrived in December already in formative
plumage (aka 1st winter plumage per Sibley Guide), having already passed
thru natal down and juvenile plumages. Late in its stay here it molted into
first alternate (breeding) plumage.
Here is a video of what the bird looked like on 12.16.25:
