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Bird Identification: CLOSED: Varied Bunting or Blue Grosbeak, 2 by P_Edens

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P_Edens wrote:
Horrible photos, so maybe no chance, but I had to try ...

Took these at Galveston, TX on the coast during a fallout yesterday (April 6). Conditions were rainy and overcast. Shot was way too far away with high ISO, so noisy and bad exposure and huge crop ... OK, enough excuses. :-)

I want to convince myself that this could be a Varied Bunting, but that would not be likely. So, probably a first summer male Blue Grosbeak?

Patti