Subject: Mystery Birds
Date: Nov 23 19:07:50 1999
From: Nene W - northwestmom at yahoo.com



Okay, maybe some of you more experienced birders can
help me out...
Sunday with the nice weather I was out cleaning up
flower bed and heard a birdcall I didn't recognize.
Grabbed my binocs (hanging under jacket) and located
about 5 birds up in the very TOP of the 120+ -foot
doug-firs around my house. So they were a bit
silhouetted, for starters, my hands weren't as steady
as I'd have liked, for seconds, and they were WAAAYYY
up there, for thirds (those are my excuses for not
making an ID and I'm sticking to them). Anyway,
watched them a minute or two, striving to see some
distinguishing feature. They appeared to be checking
out the cones,etc. up there, moving this way and that
in a manner similar to a much smaller bird like a
chickadee. Build was rather sturdy and size seemed to
be Grosbeakish. Beaks also seemed like a finch or
grosbeak. Color was hard to ascertain, but didn't
seem to be particularly strikingly marked, wings maybe
a bit darker than body, thought I detected a slight
yellowish gray? (silhouette made color detection hard)

Moved to brace my hands on the yard waste bin and they
moved to another tree with even worse view (rats!).
But as they were flying they gave off a most distinct
"PINK PINK PINK" call. Does this sound familiar to
anyone? What might they have been? Looking thru my
books, didn't come up with anything definitive. Darn
things flew off after about 5 minutes. Would
appreciate any ideas.

Danene Warnock
Bellevue, Wa
northwestmom at yahoo.com
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