Strange Bird

[scott ranger]

I'm no expert, but I agree with Ken that this is most likely a Junco, albeit a strange one. The bill is nothing like the Chickadee's(genus Parus) I see every day, but virtually identical to the Slate-colored junco's that are at my feeder every day. It has the somewhat rufous flanks of an Oregon Junco, and part of the "executioner's cap" but not all of it. I think it is probably an odd genetic morph of an Oregon, perhaps with some pink-sided, junco.

Scott Ranger