Hello Rahne,
I was reading you message but where did you see this bird?Good finding!!!!!
Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

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> From: Rahne Kirkham <rahne at mindspring.com>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: mystery bird revealed
> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 11:18 AM
>
> Last month, I described a sparrow I saw at Spencer Island that had
mystified
> me. Many suggestions were made but nothing fit. Then a few days ago I'm
> looking through the bird image gallery on tweeters and there it was
staring
> back at me from a picture by, I believe, Ruth Sullivan. It was a
> clay-colored sparrow. I never imagined seeing one there so I never even
> looked at it in my field guide but the picture was unmistakeably the same
> bird I saw. Mystery ended.
> Rahne Kirkham
> rahne at mindspring.com
> Federal Way, Washington
>
> When asked why she was always so cheerful,
> the old woman replied,
> "Well, I just wear this world as a loose garment."