In a message dated 10/18/99 12:40:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
scadane at email.msn.com writes:

> At first I thought "Thrush"
> because it was very heavily streaked on its' chest, with a pale spot under
> the throat(?couldn't really tell). It also had clay colored "eyebrows", or
> at least light colored( the sun was setting behind me and can't be sure of
> the true color).It also had a relatively smaller bill . It seemed too small
> for a thrush.Any ideas???

Song Sparrow? Heavily streaked chest, lighter streaks on face, small bill.
I've been seeing a lot of them this fall.

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
mailto: NJPharris at aol.com