CLOSED: Help with this one please

Very small about the size of a Verdin. Seen 5/10/2008 in southcentral New Mexico. Thank you.

If the size estimate is accurate, then Bell's Vireo.

Gray Vireo and Plumbeous Vireo are both hard to tell from Bell's with this photo angle, but are distinctly larger than Verdin.

Resin

Thank you Resin. I wish I had gotten more shots but this is the only one I managed. I thought it was a Verdin when I first saw it in the shadows but when it got in the light I realized it wasn't. I see Verdin everyday and am very familiar with the size so am pretty confident.

I did some comparisons between photos online and came to the conclusion that this is the Plumbeous Vireo. The way to tell the difference between the Plumbeous and the Gray is the dark marking between the eye and the bill. The Plumbeous has the dark marking and the Gray does not.

Had similar thoughts myself (favouring Plumbeous on the basis of the dark lores), trouble is that conflicts with the size comparison with Verdin (Verdin 11cm; Bell's Vireo 12cm; Plumbeous Vireo 14.5cm and 3 times the weight of a Verdin). Which makes me wonder if the dark lores could merely be a photographic effect of the bird being at an angle we aren't too used to studying them from.

Angele, any thoughts? Could the bird have been larger than you thought at first?

Resin

Of course I could be mistaken :-)
After all I photographed a light fixture on my neighbors house thinking it was a bird and a lizard dropping from every angle thinking it was a chrysalis. I would say my previous confidence has lessened.

Well, then I guess we're can be in agreement, Resin. It's a Plumbeous, right? I really don't think that a shadow could produce such a defined dark lore in this photo, do you Resin?

Luv