Anyone ever encountered this? I saw the bird Thursday afternoon while collecting a few uncommon birds in Denver City Park during the day-long light snow. Same size and look as a WBNU, which are common throughout the park. But this one had brown atop the head (not unlike Brown-headed Nuthatch, but that bird is much smaller and, of course, not found outside the Southeast) and a wide strip of the same nut-brownish color down the back. Regrettably, I'd dropped by the park with only my backup binoculars from the trunk; no camera, no photos. Some kind of hybrid/variation? Just a fluke of melanin?
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