Louie

YES!! Thank you oh so much!

Thank you for your help! I get to add a new bird to my list, woo hoo!

Located in farm land in Lincoln county, WA near Davenport. Grayish colored bird with some speckles on it's breast hopping on the ground. Any assistance you could provide would be much appreciated!

My 9 year old LOVES birding so I have come along for the journey, but we are both inexperienced and need a little extra help identifying birds. After ruling out a couple of birds he has come to believe this may be a female black headed grosbeak. We are in a dryland farm area and the bird was on the ground eating dandelion seeds (thank you little bird!!). It has a yellow/orange breast and markings on the head. Hopefully the picture does better than my description. Thank you for any help you can provide.

Thanks. I looked that up and it makes sense now. I could have never come up with that on my own.

Dry farmland area in Lincoln County, Washington near Davenport. At first glance this bird reminded me of a Varied Thrush, brown with orange/yellow eyebrow and scoopneck/chest patch, but the beak is more like a grosbeak. It spent several hours foraging for insects on the ground both in dry dirt areas and watered lawn. Not bothered by other birds on the ground near it (robins, brewers blackbirds, house sparrows, chickens). I would appreciate any help you could provide in identifying it.