[obol] That grosbeak photo

[Alan Contreras]

You raised a very good question and I had a horrible moment in which I
realized that I had given the photo too casual a look.  That is easy to do.
Thank you for raising the point.  There are probably as many winter records
of Brambling in Oregon as there are of Black-headed Grosbeak, and the colors
are similar.  Brambling is larger than most of our wintering sparrows, too.

This, by the way, is the latest grosbeak I know of for Lane Co.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

³Be naughty, save Santa a trip.²

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> From: <gneavoll at comcast.net>
> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:04:06 +0000
> To: Alan Contreras <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM>
> Subject: Re: [obol] That grosbeak photo
> 
> Thanks, Alan. - G.
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Alan Contreras <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM>
>> I think it is a grosbeak.  Brambling would not have an orange collar and the
>> wing pattern is different.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alan Contreras
>> EUGENE, OREGON
>> 
>> ³Be naughty, save Santa a trip.²
>> 
>> acontrer at mindspring.com
>> www.OREGONREVIEW.BLOGSPOT.COM ­ Social Commentary
>> www.CONTRERASBIRDS.BLOGSPOT.COM ­ Current Bird Photos
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: <gneavoll at comcast.net>
>>> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:39:12 +0000
>>> To: <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>>> Subject: [obol] That grosbeak photo
>>> 
>>> Wait a minute. That isn't a Brambling that Mike H. has in Springfield, is
>>> it?
>>> I 
>>> eliminated the small photo before I had a chance to give it a second look.
>>> Would somebody else do so?
>>> 
>>> George Neavoll
>>> S.W. Portland
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