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

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I've been puzzled by the fact that a lot of Wrentits around here have just 
a plain eye.

At 05:30 PM 1/11/07 -0800, Hilary Powers wrote:
>John Harris wrote:
>>Did you see its eye? I wonder if it could have been a Wrentit? I've seen 
>>them in Joaquin Miller before.
>I didn't get a good look at the eye, but I'm sure John - and everyone else 
>who has written to me, on list and off - is correct. Rereading my note, I 
>see I left off the thing that made me wonder most about my first 
>identification: the lovely peach-colored breast, which is very clear in 
>Sibley's pic of a Wrentit.
>(No books on the trip; I was out with folks from the Native Plant Nursery 
>collecting cuttings, and the binocs seemed enough self-indulgence.)
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