Any traces of coconut husk on the feet?

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>wrote:

> At 12:18 PM 11/20/2009, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
>
>> Could it be that the pink bill appears yellow in the light you are
>> observing with?
>>
>
> Yellow is about my best color, so I don't think so, but could be I
> suppose.  The breast as well as belly was whitish, and the back etc
> weren't anywhere near as dark as the slaty-colored juncos we get
> here, and could have been brownish rather than grayish -- my
> red/green deficiency makes that sort of distinction a bit
> chancy.  Definitely not a warbler bill.  Can't swear to the streaking
> but sitting together on the feeder rail with miscellaneous sparrows
> the contrast was notable.  Smaller than an English sparrow.  When I
> went for the glasses it flew, of course, both times.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder about a sport of some kind -- the yellow bill
> was striking, like a grackle's pale eyes, and I haven't found
> anything yet that seems remotely possible.  Just for giggles I'm
> going to look in my book of British birds...
>
> Thanks,
> David
>