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On my first trip around the auto tour at Ridgefield on a foggy fall morning, a small flock of yellow-ish birds flew beside the car but my brain couldn't pick up the ID. Eventually the rusty gears kicked into motion and I realized they were western meadowlarks. By this time they were a bit further off, but I was able to make an environmental portrait of this one on the teasel. Part of my confusion may have been rust, but part may have been that I'm not sure I've seen them in nonbreeding plumage before. The brown 'V' that separates the yellow of its chin and chest will turn a conspicuous dark black in the spring and through the breeding season, so I was thrown for a bit.
The meadowlark is the state bird of Oregon, selected by schoolchildren in 1927, although I believe there have been efforts to change it. While I have seen them in Oregon, this one is from Washington, whose state bird is a different kind of yellow, the American goldfinch.