[EBB Sightings] Mystery Bird at Children's Fairyland

Great pictures Hilary.  With the reddish crown, looks like a Saffron
Finch to me.
Bob Brandriff
Berkeley, CA

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Hilary Powers  wrote:
> Today's GGAS walk ran across a bird that none of us could identify, even
>  though it hopped around happily for at least 15 minutes. It was with a
>  couple of white-crowned sparrows, about the same size or a little
>  larger, behaving much as they did, and screaming bright butter yellow.
>  Except for grayish wing primaries and tail feathers and a bit of orange
>  frosting around its forehead and heavy black beak, it was as yellow as a
>  yellow warbler - but without the chest streaks or the weaselly warbler
>  beak or the fondness for treetops and deep brush.
>  Click the following link to download a zip archive containing four
>  pictures taken by Robert Chilvers on the walk:
>  www.powersedit.com/ftp/yellowbird.zip
>  So What Is It?! the people cried....
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