Link to pictures of a beautiful, very small bird that was the victim of a window strike at an office building in Bothell this morning. I brought him home to bury in my garden. Very petite bird, small bill, no wing bars, possibly fading black under the eye. Beautiful olive green back and entirely yellow underneath.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42405742 at N03/

The office concensus was a juvenile common yellowthroat. Sibley's drawings do not have the extensive yellow underneath. National Geograph Field Guide to the Birds of North America illustration of the juvenile has a bit more yellow. You can see by the photo of the underneath view that this bird was bright yellow entirely. Very sad to lose such a beautiful bird. This is why my windows at home have reflective decals. We have not lost any birds that we know of since we added them to our living room picture window.

Jennifer Wallin
Bellevue, WA
jennifer_m_wallin at hotmail . com