Looks like a female Brewer's Blackbird.

Kelly McAllister
Olympia, Washington

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise Rutter" <louise.rutter at eelpi.gotdns.org>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:39 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Help with ID please!


> Apologies from the ignorant British birder, but I found a bird at
> Montlake Fill this morning which I couldn't identify at the time, and
> I'm having no more luck at home with the photos. Not many birds are dark
> all over, so you'd think I'd have a fairly short list to choose from,
> but I just can't match it up! None of the flycatchers are dark all the
> way underneath. The closest general look I can find in the books is an
> immature gray jay, but the head on this bird doesn't seem dark enough.
>
> It was slightly longer than the starlings in the same tree, with its
> longer tail. It sometimes wagged its tail up and down, and it fanned it
> wide like a blackbird when it sang.
>
> I've put up a few photos from various angles here:
>
> http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v475/eelpi/Fill%20bird/
>
> Other than me scratching my head, it was a glorious morning at the Fill,
> with birdsong flooding the air in the sunshine. The birds were mostly
> the routine sightings, but I managed to actually set eyes on a virginia
> rail for the first time this year, and even got one almost-passable
> photo!
>
> Many thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Louise Rutter
> Kirkland
>
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