[EBB Sightings] If it wasn't a Cal Towhee, what was it?

Did you see its eye? I wonder if it could have been a Wrentit? I've seen 
them in Joaquin Miller before.
John Harris



John H. Harris
Professor of Biology
Mills College
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Oakland, CA 94613
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Hilary Powers wrote:

> Hiking in Joaquin Miller Park this morning, I watched a bird I first thought 
> was a Cal Towhee hopping around a fallen log. All brown, check - but no 
> orange under the tail and no marks at all around the face. And it moved more 
> like a wren - holding its tail straight up part of the time. (But definitely 
> not a wren; there was a Bewick's Wren in the same spot, and they weren't even 
> cousins.)
> Any ideas?
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