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Forgive the long post but I wanted to be as detailed as possible.   Since colours are subjective it was about 3pm in the spring, fairly bright day but was behind an apartment building so seemed more overcast. the bird was seen on a grey concrete porch with black wrought iron balustrade. There were two of them but they seemed identical so ...

Hello everyone.  Can anyone identify this bird for me?  This picture was taken this morning (05/30/09) in Santa Cruz, CA.  We found the baby yesterday and, with instruction from local wildlife rescue, made a new ''nest'' as the baby can not fly and we don't know where the original nest is.  Bringing it in at night for ...