Hi,
I'm still looking for an answer for this bird. I thought a bird in the
hand, literally, would surely be worth more than a bird in the bush, or
tree, or flying away. One response was a Green-Tailed Towhee, but although
the unstreaked gray with yellowish-colored wings and tail feathers matched
perfectly, it lacked the reddish crown and white under the throat. Another
response was a female Lawrence's Goldfinch, but my bird was bigger, and
didn't have any black on it anywhere--just gray with the pale yellow wings
and tail feathers. This bird had to be something.

Thanks,
Diane

My original post:

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