Could it be an escaped cage bird, like a variable seedeater (Sporophila
aurita) or thick-billed seed-finch (Oryzoborus funereus), etc.?

Gene Hunn.

At 11:15 AM 1/5/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>>Twice today I saw a BLACK (coal/night/crow not grey!) finch or finchlike
>>bird at my feeder.
>>Rob Conway
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>Any possibility of it being fox sparrow?
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>Rob Saecker
>Olympia
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