Help please! I noticed a LBB with a very white throat in my West Seattle backyard yesterday. I thought it must be a white-throated sparrow but a friend suggests that the beak is wrong and it must be a gold-crowned sparrow with "a very pale throat." The thing is blazingly white (you might even say it glows!), not "very pale" but she's usually right . . .

Photos are are here:

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/emmarytz/birds%20and%20cookies%20of%20December/?action=view&current=whitethroatedsparrow22december.jpg

and here:


http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/emmarytz/birds%20and%20cookies%20of%20December/?action=view&current=whitethroatedsparrowbackyard.jpg

Thanks!

Mary