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On a river near Rochester, MN in the beginning of August

In our backyard!😃

Hooded Mergansers

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/409581651 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/409581581

You'll still be able to find a bunch of warblers in the summer!

The lake is mostly frozen but there are spots of open water. This guy decided to just stand in the middle of the big frozen... .

Yep Bachman's Sparrow

Definitely Bachman’s by location and that rufous coloration on its back and nape.

I still haven’t seen the Hoodeds 😢 The Ceruleans remained for a few weeks in May, but nobody checked on them during the summer so I don’t know if they actually bred this year.

Cool. Forgot to crop it too.

Liam will probably know.

It’s a topic we have were @Liamposts a very challenging bird to ID, and we have to ID it. He once posted something like a Bachman’s sparrow, and it got me too confused to answer this !

Hooded, yellow, common yellow throat, American redstart, CERULEAN??!!, and ovenbird? I want a cerulean! Ive seen three of those you listed. YEWA, COYE, and AMRE

Quiz? Heh I've been editing, trying to get the picture to appear.

Correct, I’d look at the illustrated checklist for the county that your going to be visiting. You might be far enough north for some good ones. In my county we only have HOWA, YEWA, COYE, AMRE, and the occasional Cerulean Warblers and Ovenbirds as breeders.

@Liam his quiz with this trio made me too confused to respond.

Juncos all year 😯 I need my 5 month spring and summer recovery period between identifying subspecies.

I’m hoping for warblers, but there’s not gonna be as many as there would be in migration, right?

I edited again, hoping to preserve accuracy and humor at the same time. How did I do? I can change it again if you want!

Is this a Bachman's Sparrow? Taken 10 days ago (1/15/22) in mid-Florida. [url=https://flic.kr/p/2mZ9QVX][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51842593673_d0530c91db_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mZ9QVX]IMG_0134[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/145902712@N05/]James J[/url], on Flickr Eh don't remember how to add pics now, it's been so long....

Nice! You should definitely be able to pick up some lifers. Central NY should have some cool summer breeding birds.

We have them all year, however they’re more common in winter.