Date: 7/3/26 8:25 pm From: Kathryn Macbride via groups.io <kathymacbride...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Brown Thrasher in Berkeley
Please, Can anyone tell me. Is this a purple finch on my feeder in Orinda
today? My iphone changed the color a little. It was not quite this rasberry.
Kathy
On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM Tyche Hendricks via groups.io
<tychehendricks...> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I’m new to this group, thanks to an invitation from my friend Marissa
> Ortega-Welch. Happy to be here!
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> I wanted to share that I’ve had an interesting visitor in my backyard the
> last couple of days. At first I only got fleeting looks as it flew off and
> I wondered if it was an exceptionally rusty-colored California Towhee (with
> a long tail).
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> But this morning I got a good look and some photos and it appears to be a
> Brown Thrasher. It kept perching above my suet feeder, maybe not sure how
> to get the suet. Also hopping around on the lawn and pecking in the dirt,
> then flying into nearby bushes/trees, then off.
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> You can’t see from the photo, but the eye is yellow.
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> Enjoy!
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> Tyche
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