Subject: Need help w/ ID pls.
Date: Sep 26 17:03:21 2002
From: LDavey at aol.com - LDavey at aol.com


Tweets,

I need help identifying a bird spotted this afternoon. I've listed as much
information as I could recall below.

Location when spotted: It was perched at the top of a tall, coniferous tree
in our back yard on Pine Lake.

Size: Similar to a Robin, maybe slightly larger given the height of the tree.
The bird seemed to have a large, heavy breast for it's size.

Color: Very pale, clay-colored or buff - on both side of the breast, and
progressively light toward the middle of the breast to almost white.
Even-colored. I looked for, but did not see any spots or stripes. (The lack
of spots, and yellow bill is why I ruled out a light-colored Robin.)

Bill color: From the ground looking up, it was slender, black.

Eye ring: It was difficult to tell if there was an unbroken eyering, but it
was white.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Linda Davey
Sammamish, WA