To put you all out of your misery, the bird in photo is absolutely,
positively an orange-variant House Finch (a lack of pigment causes this
orange over red; actually a fairly common occurrence in House Finch)!

David Allinson
President, Rocky Point Bird Observatory
572 Atkins Avenue
Victoria, BC
V9B 3A3
Ph. (250)478-0493

Web site: www.islandnet.com/~rpbo
273 species and counting!
Look for a bargraph checklist coming soon.

"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein