>Hi tweeters,
>
>This morning I was out watering when a flash of yellow flew past me and
>landed in an apple tree in the park in front of my house. I walked over and
>observed for a few minutes an orange sparrow sized bird. It had some
>streaking on one side of its head but not on the other. A few minutes
>later, when I was filling my feeders, I saw it again in a Douglas fir. This
>time I saw its wings and there was a bit of streaking on the tips. I looked
>in my Birds of Victoria quickly, but I didn't see anything that resembled
>this bird. It is a quite bright medium orange. Does anyone know what this
>bird could be? I wanted to post this while it was still fresh in my mind.
>I will be looking in other books and hopefully will identify it.
>
>Catherine
>Catherine Fryer
>Victoria, BC
>cfryer at pacificcoast.net

My guess is that it's an escaped canary.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416