I was in a marshy area yesterday and saw something brown skulking around the cattails and weeds near a culvert. I assumed it was a wren but it was a sparrow. It had a dark grey breast/belly that was extremely mottled with dark brown and darker grey blotches. Nothing streaky just quite dark overall and randomly blotchy with the blotchy being small blotches. Other than that mostly what I can remember is a slight eyering and a distinctly forked tail that seemed sort of long and an undistingished head (brown and grey). Near as I can figure is a juvenile song sparrow. Anyone? Mary, Fairborn ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]