CLOSED: Identify this bird, please! Vol 9.

No problem Pelletory! I'm not very good with warblers either! LOL! I just didn't want it to get lost in the flurry of new photos of UFBs (unidentified flying birds). :-)

And this is?

Looks like a female Purple Finch to me, but I'm no expert.

Konkrete, female Red-winged Black bird, I think.

Nanny, I do think you are right! I knew I had seen it before but not recently. I was just noticing too that the male hasn't been here in a few days. It's odd that she looks so different from the male, almost like a giant sparrow. It was definitely more timid than the male. I'll have to find something "special" to put out for her tomorrow, just in case. :) Thanks!

This message was edited Apr 28, 2008 10:48 PM

I was close.........it was a bird.

Adel: Whatever that "bb" was it's very pretty, I saw my first Yellow Bird and found out it was an Eastern Meadowlark, but my husband complained when I stopped the car to look at it - no question of getting a picture!!

Oh Congratulations Claire!!!!

Wow, thank you Resin, that's exciting! And it even looks like the blue-winged warbler actually lives in Iowa, so maybe it's not just passing through. I hope it will revisit. I looked at the pictures and find that it is quite difficult to distinguish between the pine and blue-winged females, at least for me! What was the characteristic that stood out as making it blue-winged, so that I will know in future?
Thanks
Claire

Edited to say that I begin to think it might be the depth of the yellow colouring, which seems paler on the pine warbler.

This message was edited Apr 29, 2008 8:18 AM

I was going on general size/shape (it looks a small, dainty bird, whereas Pine W is fairly chunky as warblers go), and also the nice clean yellow flanks (streaked drab olive-green on Pine).

Resin

this was in the shade.

Interesting, sort of looks like that hermit thrush I had a couple of weeks ago, or something similar.

The closest thing I could find was the Hermit thrush also.

LOL adele! Your guess (a bird) was as good as mine. :)

For anyone else who, like me, is having trouble with warbler identification, I found this site which I thought was quite useful. Hopefully I will now be able to have a better guess on my warblers before posting their photos for final ID!! It has a lot of photographs and description on features to look for, which is quite handy, especially when you've only got a couple of shots of the bird from funny angles or backside only, etc.

http://www.giffbeaton.com/warblers.htm

Thanks for the site Claire!

I'll take a look at it and maybe add it to the Sticky.

I'd agree with Hermit Thrush too.

That warblers link looks quite good, though people with dial-up will find the long page with numerous thumbnail pics very slow to load.

Resin

I did notice that. I'm on cable and it loaded sorta slow for me.

Yes, I agree - I linked to it at work, which is quite high speed. At home, I'm on satellite internet, which is not as fast and it does take a while to load. None the less, it is quite helpful for someone new to warblers, like me. Every afternoon when I get home from work, I go on warbler patrol!

I don't blame you! ^_^

Here's a new one for me.

I'm going to stick my neck out again and say it's a Common Yellowthroat, but I'll hedge mybet and say it's also a yellow bird.

someone just had this bird didn't they? Tigerlily???
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4852201

I thought I remembered seeing him here recently. Thanks so much!

Yep, Yellowthroat

Resin

I'm glad some of you are also seeing the very lovely Yellowthroat! They tend to be rather elusive and shy. Each time I have seen them, they were on or very near the ground at my creek or at the pond.

Mine was working from the ground and then up and all over the inside of a large shrub, picking up little bugs. Stayed mostly hidden from view.

At first, I thought it was a song sparrow, but no eye ring, and what's with this rosey tint?

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Mrs. Ed...Now I know where my Female Purple Finch went! (at least I think that is what it is)!

Yep, female Purple Finch

Resin

I was right...Resin you have taught me well!! LOL!

I though I was imagining things earlier today. I was almost sure that we had at least 2 different male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks here this morning. But not sure...just thrilled I had seen them 3 days now. Last year we had a male & female come a couple of times then never saw them again.

My suspicions were confirmed this afternoon. Evidently the memo has been put out that Morgan's Diner is open!!

now I need a date for each of them...though after seeing how they shovel in the food with those big beaks, I will need a job!

OMG it's contagious adel!! LOL

ROTFLOL!! Oh No!!! :-)))

OMG a purple finch. no wonder I couldn't find it in the sparrow section.

Nanny and Mrs Ed...LOL!!!

Nanny_56 I knew it was contagious, I didn't know it could travel through cyberspace>