[EBB Sightings] ID question at Hayward Shoreline

Female American Goldfinch.  Thanks... I got hung up on
the idea that it was in the sparrow family.  You are
right.  Looks just like the female-non-breeding
picture at the Cornell web site:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch.html
-Bill
--- Alan Krakauer  wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
>    Have you thought about American Goldfinch for
> your mystery  
> sparrow?  That would be my guess.
> 
> nice photos- I'm going to have to make it down there
> one of these days!
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan H. Krakauer
> PhD Candidate
> Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and
> Department of Integrative Biology
> University of California, Berkeley
> Berkeley, CA 94702-3160 USA
> Office: 510-642-7888
> Fax: 510-643-8238
> krakauer at berkeley.edu
> 
> 
> On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:36 AM, William Clark wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone help me with an indentification?  I'm
> > stumped with the sparrow shown in the first two
> > pictures of this slide show of pictures from
> Hayward
> > Regional Shoreline.
> > http://wclark.shutterfly.com/action/slideshow? 
> >
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> > I keep trying to make it fit grasshopper sparrow,
> or
> > female house sparrow, or female blue grosbeak...
> but
> > nothing quite fits.
> >
> > Last weekend, I found these sparrows in the sage
> brush
> > along the flood control channel between the Winton
> Ave
> > parking lot and Hayward's landing.   The rest of
> the
> > pictures are of the shorebirds and raptors in the
> > marshes north of Winton Ave. (aka "Frank's Dump").
> > Sightings included:
> > WhiteTailedKite
> > Nor. Harrier
> > Snowy and Great Egret
> > Marbled Godwit (100+)
> > American Avocets (100+)
> > Black-bellied plover (100+)
> > Willet (100+)
> > Long-billed curlew
> > Savannah Sparrow
> > Chestnut-backed Chickadee
> > Bushtit
> > Mallard
> > Barn Swallow
> > Black Phoebe
> > Forster's Tern
> > Dbl Crested Cormorant
> > Western Sandpiper
> > Sanderling
> >
> > Thanks for your help -
> > Bill Clark
> > Livermore
> > P.S.  It's not exactly Alameda county, but you are
> > welcome to checkout my pictures from my trip to
> > Florida in August.  Yes, you can see birds there
> > off-season.
> > http://wclark.shutterfly.com/action/slideshow? 
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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