Sandra,

Sorry for the delay in response, I'm on "Digets" mode.

>From your description I would suggest you see if Song Sparrow (Melospiza
melodia) fits the bill. They are commonly found in that location at Green
Lake.

Martin Muller, Seattle
MartinMuller at email.msn.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Sandra C. Andersen. <scadane at email.msn.com>
To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:38 AM
Subject: Unknown( to me) bird at GreenLake


> I was playing hookey from my usuual chores and ran off to GreenLake on
late
> Sunday(17th). On the West side of the lake, just before (to the North of )
> the cattails area where the red wing blackbirds are, in the blackberry
vines
> and the pink morning glories was a brownish bird smaller than the red
wings
> and larger than the black capped chickadees. 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???
> Sandi
> Seattle( Capitol Hill)
> scadane at msn.com
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