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That must be a baby Starling. Here's a web page of
someone who raised a Starling. The plumages in July 1999
look comparable to this bird.

http://www.starlingcentral.net/babystormy.htm

The sillouette (short legs, long bill) is also consistent
with Western Meadowlark but it looks like a Starling to me.

Daniel Bump

> I'd like to post this picture on my website, but I can't identify the bird.
> OK, I saw it over the weekend in Sonoma County (Bodega Bay), not Santa
> Clara. But this group is where I go to embarrass myself.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/MysteryBird.jpg
> 
> The bird was hanging with Red-winged and Brewer's Blackbirds alongside a
> pond. When I took the picture, I thought it was a female or juvenile
> Brewer's Blackbird. But now that I've looked at the picture, that doesn't
> look quite right (bill too thin at base, tail kinda short, that light gray
> plumage -- and pink legs?). This is a crop from the original digital image,
> sharpened but not otherwise edited. Picture taken at 6.15 PDT, so figure
> some warming effect from the light.
> 
> So what's the "duh"?
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