You are probably spot on! There is no real reason it could not be, You will
be the only real person who can say you saw this, so stand by your sighting
and think yourself blessed :-)

You did mean a White-crowned sparrow and not finch earlier though?



Nice one!



Martyn :-)



Martyn Stewart
Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
http://www.naturesound.org
N47.65543 W121.98428
Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!

The Spring is cum
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is?

The birdies on the wing!
Nah, that's absoid
D' wing is on d' boid!
..........................

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From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of jvbonham at msn.com
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:42 PM
To: tweeters
Subject: Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch



Today I was looking out at my birdfeeder watching female Purple Finch chow
down on its favorite sunflower seeds and wasn't paying really close
attention. A pair of Gold-Crowned Sparrows and a pair of White-Crowned
Finches have been hanging out with the two pairs of Purple Finches that have
adopted my feeder. I recognized that the bird wasn't a white-crowned and
grabbed my binoculars. I am not a professional by any means, but I am
spending at least an hour a day studying my bird books. This bird stumped
me. I thought it was a sparrow, and I really am not great at telling the
difference. I wrote down the markings as fast as I could so I wouldn't lose
the image as soon as the bird flew away. The color of the beak was right,
and it was ducking so rapidly into the feeder that I didn't really get a
good look at the shape, just its color and the color of the feet as well as
the primary markings. It amazed me when I found what I was looking for with
a picture and description of a Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch. It was either a
female or an immature bird, and with the time of year, I am "assuming" that
it was a female. There wasn't the rosy red color or else I missed it, but
the sun was shining brightly right onto the feeder. The bird had a light
colored head and a streak down the top of it. It had a light colored head
like the white crowneds, but what really made me look at it was the
brilliant "rust" colored "cape" that it was wearing.



This is a first for me for this bird, and as I read the book, it really
shouldn't have been around Centralia. Has anyone else seen this bird? I am
99.99% sure of my identification.



J.V.Bonham

Centralia, WA

jvbonham at msn.com



Also, I really did see an actual male Rufous Hummingbird tonight. Here. At
my Feeder. At last!!!! ( 6:00 pm)

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