Are you suggesting that it drifted ashore on the back of a coconut?
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On 11/20/2009 10:53 AM Mike South wrote:

> 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
>>
>