sollatThis bird is a mystery. A little smaller than an American robin, but wrong colors and behavior. It kind of looks like an enormous sparrow or warbler to me. Thoughts?
Ed: Consensus is Fox Sparrow
Hryscan@sollat It think maybe a Swainsons Thrush. Very unusual to see them anywhere but the forest so that makes me wonder.
Swainson's Thrush Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
More likely to be heard than seen, Swainson’s Thrushes enliven summer mornings and evenings with their upward-spiraling, flutelike songs. During fall and spring migration, their soft, bell-like overhead “peeps” may be mistaken for the calls of frogs. These largely arboreal foragers pluck berries, glean bugs from leaves, or perch on branches and stumps. They also bound across the forest floor to catch insect prey. They breed in the north and the mountainous West, but they become very widespread during migration.
Matthew Conroy
Robert Riedl 
@matthewconroy @sollat I agree with @aaron 's friend's ID. The yellow bill and eye ring are also another good field marks for this ID.
Way cool sighting! I don't see them very often in the PNW and when I do, they skulk around bushes.
Aaron@sollat I sent this to one of my best friends who's a huge birdwatcher, his reply:
"When it turned I was getting some facial pattern and possibly a Sparrow bill. ... I believe based on the reddish tail, thick reddish streaks going down to the sides close to the vent, but largely gray face and what appears to be a sparrow bill when it turns, that this is a western race of Fox Sparrow in " Slate-colored" group, common in the interior mountains of the west. "
"When it turned I was getting some facial pattern and possibly a Sparrow bill. ... I believe based on the reddish tail, thick reddish streaks going down to the sides close to the vent, but largely gray face and what appears to be a sparrow bill when it turns, that this is a western race of Fox Sparrow in " Slate-colored" group, common in the interior mountains of the west. "