What about an immature? Similar plumage and shape, darker eyes.

Jim McCoy
jfmccoy at earthlink.net
Redmond, WA



-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Bag??s [mailto:dbagues at teleport.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:51 PM
To: Tweeters; OBOL
Subject: Sage Thrasher or ???


Hi,

Yesterday morning at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah, I spent a
long time looking at a very well back lit bird that looked for all the world
like the Sage Thrasher as pictured in Peterson's and NGS3, except that I
could not see a yellow eye. (This bird, which would be a lifer, was in fact
the reason I took the side trip on what was consequently an even longer very
very long drive home.) My question is, if it wasn't a Sage Thrasher I was
looking at, what might it have been? I haven't been able to find anything
else in my books that looks like the bird I was watching.

Thanks for any help.

Diane Bagues
Milwaukie, Oregon
dbagues at teleport.com