Lark Sparrow Monroe Co.

[Karl Overman]

Yesterday, May 6, 2008, Roger Kuhlman found a Lark Sparrow at the  
Petersburg State Game Area--just as he had a year earlier (May 7,  
2007).  I went there today and found  the singing Lark Sparrow in the  
same locale that Roger had it yesterday.  This is on Lulu Road at the  
state game area parking area on the south side of the road east of  
Teal Road.  I also checked the burn area at the next parking area to  
the east on Lulu Road but came up with nothing noteworthy.

I walked the burn area with the Lark Sparrow earlier without success  
with light rain and fairly windy conditions.  In a break in the rain  
I tried again and this time the Lark Sparrow was singing in a small  
tree to the left of where one would walk into the burn from the  
parking area.

The Petersburg State Game area looks much like a miniature version of  
the Oak Openings area 25 miles to the south in Ohio where there is a  
long standing isolated population of breeding Lark Sparrows.  In  SE  
Michigan, Lark Sparrow vanished as regular breeding bird in the early  
1950's.  See, e.g., Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan, p.235.


Cheers,

Karl Overman
Farmington Hills, Mi.

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