In a message dated 8/17/00 5:43:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bmsh.mckenzie at gte.net writes:

> The bird was about the size of a robin (which is what I thought it was until
> I saw the head) The breast was a very pale orangish yellow. No streaks.
> There were white eye stripes and a white streak across the top of the head.
>
> The beak was rather sparrow or finch like. I never got a good look at the
> back but looked rather like that of a robin or a thrush.

Female Black-headed Grosbeak?

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
NJPharris at aol.com