Yesterday, at the Fill, late afternoon, Bob and I had a good, long look at a sparrow-like bird sitting in the shrubbery on the west side of Main pond. It had an orange conical beak, smooth, pearly breast with no striations; broad, chestnut colored stripes on top of head with a thin, light colored stripe in-between. I think, pinkish legs. For the life of me, I can't ID it from my guides.

An odd thing about this is that I think we saw a bird with same description on a hike south of Paradise on Mt. Rainier (to Snow Lake) 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Any ideas?

Elizabeth Lowe Edgerton

Seattle, Wa
lizedge at mac.com

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