Date: 7/6/26 11:33 am From: Teale Fristoe via groups.io <fristoe...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Brown Thrasher in Berkeley
Kathy,
With distinct streaking on the flanks and whitish (rather than pink)
wingbars, this is a House Finch.
Teale Fristoe
Berkeley
On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM Kathryn Macbride via groups.io
<kathymacbride...> wrote:
> 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.
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> Kathy
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> On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM Tyche Hendricks via groups.io
> <tychehendricks...> wrote:
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>> 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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