[EBB Sightings] Mystery Bird at Children's Fairyland <369d37fa0803261542i35d6d67fh9354666d638dc155@mail.gmail.com>

I'll second the Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola), the other clue being the
yellow lower bill.

Johan Langewis
Oakland


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Brandriff" 
To: "ebbsightings" 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [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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