brown bird w/reddish wing patch (1 Viewer)

I saw one of these at my bird feeder todat and can't find an I.D. for it...
It is 4-5 inches long...brown streaked feathers all over with a darker brown streak above eye's....also has a slight reddish wing patch....any help appreciated....

Could be any of American Sparrows. I have seen Chipping Sparrows, Song Sparrows, and American Tree Sparrows that could match your description.

Individual bird links:

Chipping Sparrow:
http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec202-268.html

American Tree Sparrow:
http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec202-267.html

Song Sparrow:
http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec202-291.html

For easier time ID'ing this bird of yours, please give us more detail, such as bill shape and size, maybe a photo if possible, anything, Even change you location ("USA") to something more specific, like City, State (Due to many species being year-rounders in one part of a state and never in another part of the state), that can help us.

Could also be a House Finch adult female, or Purple Finch adult female. There are tons of American Birds that match your description.

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Anyway, DOUBLEJK, If you follow everything above, we might just be able to help you out quicker than without a photo or a concise description.

Soory...didn't get a photo....but it was wren sized bigger... about half agian as big and more mottled brown than the sparrows you linked....and definitely had a reddish wing patch but not bright like on a red winged blackbird...it was very subdued but noticable....
was the same mottled brown on it's whole body....front and back
I'm in eastern Colorado....

Hi Doublejk,

It could be a young male Red-winged Blackbird (one born last year), which would be streaky like a female but would have a bit of red wing patch starting to appear.

Here are some pics of immature male Red-winged Blackbirds:

http://azwildbirds.com/birdfoto/blackbird/bb05.jpg
http://www.weaselhead.org/images/galleries/phil_musta/red-winged_blackbird_immature.jpg

and an illustration (the bird on the left side):

http://www.mcq.org/audubon/catalogue/images/audubon_067.jpg

Close? No joy?

that might be it

http://www.mcq.org/audubon/catalogue/images/audubon_067.jpg

It looked most like the bird on the right....the middle one....real close to what I saw....

Is that also an imature redwing blackbird?

I'm pretty sure, yeah. Those pics are all Red-winged Blackbirds. I don't think the females have any red on the wings (I've never seen any, at least), so that pic on the middle-right is probably depicting a younger stage of juvenile than the one on the left.

edit - actually, the pic on the left could be a full grown male in winter plumage.