CLOSED: Identify This Bird Please - Volume 6.

Some kind of Warbler? My closest guess is a Pine Warbler but that's probably so wrong! I've got 2 pics, neither great.

Pic #2

Grackle - yes, Common Grackle

Some kind of Warbler - yes, Pine Warbler

Resin

Thanks Resin!

Sadie, congrats on the Pine Warbler!

I have 4 pics of little birds. I'm not sure who they are or if they are even all the same. I do apologize for the poor quality. Sparrows of some sort?

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Looks like a white-throated sparrow to me, especially in #2. Note the little yellow around the beak.

Nanny, I'm pretty sure 2 & 4 are White-throated Sparrows, I can't tell for sure on the others.


Thanks for verifying the I.D. Resin, that's a new bird for me :-)

Thanks Rose. Is that your first Grackle? I love the way they shine in the sun!

Yep, White-throated Sparrow for me too, except #3 could possibly be Chipping Sparrow (not clear enough to be certain either way)

Resin

Saw this hawk at Bennett Springs State Park...unfortunately I was shooting into the sun!

Thanks!

These six pics are of way up high. I had to add a lot of light in photoshop. Downy or Hairy? This was in an area that had been farmed in cotton before the civil war. Since then it has been allowed to grow wild. The cotton rows are still there but now three people can not touch hands around the trunks of the oak and pine trees that grow on the rows.

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Thanks I thought that's what they might be. But they had possbly looked different than the pic you ID'd for me before. But the lighting was very different today and they were very well camoflouged in the leaves. If they hadn't been moving I waouldn't have even seen them!!

Nanny, mine too were camouflaged. Same thing with the pine siskens in the leaves and the brown creeper on the trees.

Hi Frank, Its a Sapsucker.

I know it's a Junco, but it's much darker (and lighter!) than any I'd seen before. It showed up a couple days ago, so I've been watching to get images. This bird is only black and white..........no beige or cream on the sides, and no grey anywhere. Sorry it's in the shadows, but that what I was able to get. Is this particular bird out of it's element or an anomoly? It really stands out from the other Junco's here. Can anyone tell me more about this bird?

Back to the western form of the flicker. I saw one for the first time at in-laws in CO. I had not realized before that that the orange-shafted (western one) had a red "mustashe" The eastern which I had always seen has a black one. Therefore you don't have to go around trying to peek under their wings.

Thanks so much, Resin! It's always exciting to see birds here that are not supposed to be.

Thank you pelle and Resin

How exciting to know that besides redbellied, there is yellow-bellied wp. Wow, what a beautiful world we live in!!!
Thanks Pelle and Resin for sharing your knowledge with us.
Kim

Thanks for the ID Resin on the Red-tailed Hawk!

Hi all! I've been absent a bit since I first started coming here. Well, actually not absent from DG, but just lurking here in birds instead of posting a lot like I was.

Anyway, back on Feb 19, I saw these birds at my finch feeder and assumed they were American Goldfinch with drastic plumage change since I last saw them. But it seems like they have too much black on their backs compared to the pics at Cornell. What do I have?

Here you can see the males from front and back.

Here is one showing the female (I assume) better.

I shouldn't have said I've been "lurking." That sounds secretive. I've just been popping in to look at pics, but haven't had time to post pics (it's a real pain getting them off my camera to this computer).

Lesser Goldfinch?

Those male Lesser Goldfinches would have green backs out in West Texas...just a color variation.

Yes, Lesser Goldfinch,black backed form,

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OIC! Thanks guys. I guess I glanced at the Lesser Goldfinch but didn't scroll down to see the black backed form. At least I thought I checked that one.

Oh well. Make that cool! New bird for me!

Mocking Bird or....????

Yep, Mockingbird.

Resin

???? Taken at Lower Klamath Res.

Lower Klamath Res. Smaller than a Red-tailed Hawk Northern Harrier ?????

Who is this?
GG

Hi GG, Looks like a Northern Mockingbird.