I have a monster headache and looking in my bird book is making it worse. I'm just going to be totally lazy, post and hope some of you know what the heck I have here!
We'll call this one bird #1. There were a bunch of these at a wildlife refuge in Nebraska.
Bird #2 -- In a tree in the valley of the Badlands of South Dakota.
Here is a bad picture of a bird in the same tree as mystery bird #2. I think probably the male version of the same bird.
#1 Upland Sandpiper - nice one!
#2 juv Bluebird, most likely still Eastern Bluebird in SD.
Resin
#3 'nother juv Eastern Bluebird ;-)
Wow, Resin, you are so fast that I didn't even post this one yet! Bluebird eh! Too cool. Here's the side view of the juv. bluebird formerly known as mystery bird #2.
Recognised them from 2dCousinDave's pics ;-)
Well then Resin, you have one impressive memory!
This is a mystery flycatcher. One of the parents (nest on the porch beams) has a very yellow belly. I'm guessing it is still a Least Flycatcher, but my mom said that its belly was too yellow. Again, Black Hills in western South Dakota.
None of my pictures except one total blur shows them to be as yellow as they appeared to the eye. Here is one from the front of the mystery flycatcher.
Are these two just sparrows (poor sparrows, I give them no respect!) They look like they think a lot of themselves so I figured I should ask.
The Flycatcher is probably Least, but those Empidonax are VERY tricky, can't be 100% certain without recordings of song, etc.
Any more pics of the two sparrows? Not enough visible to tell. They're not House Sparrows, if that's what you were wondering.
Resin
