Wayne,

Thanks for the suggestion. The colors and sizing are right, except it
didn't have the reddish cap or white throat. NGS shows the juvenile as
streaked. (If I'd realized the bird would be challenging to ID, I'd have
considered taking a picture. But at the time, I was just feeling badly for
a dying bird.)

Diane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Hoffman" <whoffman at peak.org>

> The size and wing/tail colors, at least, suggest Green-tailed Towhee:
maybe
> a juvie?
>
> Wayne
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for help in IDing a bird:
> > Appearance--Plain gray, with yellowish or yellow-greenish wings and tail
> > feathers. Pale seed-eater's bill. No other markings or streaking that
I
> > recall. Sparrow-sized.
> > Location--Calif. 158/June Lake Loop, east off US 395 on the east side of
> > the
> > Sierra Nevada Mountains between Mammoth Lakes and the Tioga Pass Road
> > through Yosemite.
> > The Story--This was a bird that had probably flown into a car and was
> > either
> > stunned badly or fatally injured. It was still alive when I stopped and
> > picked it up and laid it under some brush off the road. Later I tried
to
> > ID
> > it but to my surprise I couldn't find it in Kaufman or the NGS 3rd.
> > Can anybody help? Thanks.
> >
> > Diane Bagues
> > Milwaukie, Oregon
> > dbagues at earthlink.net
> >
>