Unknown( to me) bird at GreenLake

[NJPharris at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/18/99 12:40:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
scadane at email.msn.com writes:

> At first I thought "Thrush"
>  because it was very heavily streaked on its' chest, with a pale spot under
>  the throat(?couldn't really tell). It also had clay colored "eyebrows", or
>  at least light colored( the sun was setting behind me and can't be sure of
>  the true color).It also had a relatively smaller bill . It seemed too small
>  for a thrush.Any ideas???

Song Sparrow?  Heavily streaked chest, lighter streaks on face, small bill.  
I've been seeing a lot of them this fall.

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
mailto: NJPharris at aol.com