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Little blue heron fledgling

Green Heron - Portrait Green Heron by Johnny, on Flickr Monarch Monarch by Johnny, on Flickr

Welcome to Whatbird!! Actually, this is a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. The yellow lower mandible and yellow orbital eye-ring are good ID marks. (I'm afraid your husband is correct!! )

Swainsons Hawk Anahauc NWR 7-18 Swainsons Hawk Anahauc NWR 7-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr

Here is an oddity for these parts.... a Northern Gannet on the shores on Rye NH. A very cooperative subject was he !

IMG_7951 by Jason, on Flickr

European Starling.

Wow, First bird sighting. Thank you very much

You've got a Sandhill Crane. Nice!

The Eastern Bluebird

Thanks. Earlier this Spring at another park had fresh Kingbird tails. Had lots of white. Must have been a hard summer.

Seen at a bird feeder in Pylesville, Maryland, on August 10.

Northen Kingbird Anahauc NWR 7-18 Northen Kingbird Anahauc NWR 7-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr

It is and that’s me third from the left.

This is really a question to further my own learning: I think I see black on the back of the head of the birds in flight in shots 1 and 3. Does the black on a non-breeding Forster's actually wrap around the back head like that? I thought the black on FOTE was generally restricted to big eye patches, creating the impression of a mask. I get that FOTE is less uncommon inland (and an ebird search bears this out). So could it just be incomplete molt on the bird in flight, with it's wrap-around black head and white crown?

Purple Martins (large, curved bills & streaked breast).

Taken last week in San Francisco I think an Elegant Tern

Not the greatest picture, but a pretty good bird. Little Egret Little Egret by Patrick Felker, on Flickr

Indigo Bunting by Mark Goodwin, on Flickr

Laughing Gull Chasing Parasitic Jaeger by Greg Miller, on Flickr American Bittern by Greg Miller, on Flickr Rough-legged Hawk - Light Morph by Greg Miller, on Flickr

Sounds just like the immature Great Horned Owl call on my BirdTunes app.