Yes, it's a female Bullock's, as someone else has said. To help in your continuing education, notice the features: slim, elongated bird with icterid bill (longish, sharply pointed, downcurved culmen), long tail rounded at tip, pale yellow breast.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503

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From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu on behalf of David Richardson
Sent: Mon 7/10/2006 4:21 PM
To: Tweeters
Subject: [Tweeters] Confirm ID ?


Once again I am asking you good people to help me learn.
Around Issaquah creek this morning I saw what I believe to be a female Bullock's Oriole and another juvenile duck where the shape of the head feathers and tail don't help me.
They are the first two pics in the recent sightings album on www.west_woods.typepad.com

As always , thank you for my continuing education !

David Richardson
Sammamish
DaveR at nwlink.com