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Pacific-golden Plover molt has recently begun:

I agree with young Red-shouldered. Harriers have longer wings with a different underwing pattern and a smaller head with a unique face shape. Young Cooper's Hawks have different tail, back, and head patterns, bright yellow eyes, longer tails, and shorter wings. Red-tailed Hawks have shorter tails, dark patagial marks, and they're usually bulkier with larger bills.

Juvy Gyrfalcon at sunrise

Looks better for Cooper’s.

This is a Little Blue Heron.

On a recent business trip to Miami, picked up a 2 misses from last time as well as 2 rarities. However no pics as I did not bring the camera. 622-625: Thick-billed Vireo, Western Spindalis, White-winged Parakeet, and Spot-breasted Oriole.

This red-naped sapsucker was enjoying my yaupon holly berries. First time I've seen one in my area. Brownwood, TX is pretty far east for them.

Seen on the rock wall outside Harvest Inn, St. Helena, CA.

If you can, get more pictures if you see it again. That would be an insane bill for that bird. Here's what it should look like -> https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Acorn_Woodpecker/id

The same orange color visible on the bill is also on the neck and wing. That’s what makes it look like a lighting issue to me. Besides, head/bill shape look better for Tundra or Trumpeter.

Maybe it's an odd overgrown bill, but I know it was the bill because the bird moved to different places and always seemed to be using the bill to dig under the rocks searching for something. It was a very long curved bill. It looked very much like the woodpeckers we have here but much smaller - did not look like a juvenile; about the size of a robin. most mysterious. We've lived here since the early 70's and have never seen any bird like it before. Thanks for all your fast quick help. Any other thoughts are welcome.

Yes, Common Raven.

Either holding something or the bill is very overgrown.

Yes, Northern Gannets

Agreed.

Yes it is.

Bald Eagle.

Looks like a Common Raven to me.

Certainly look like they are...

My guess is this little guy is a sparrow, if so what kind of sparrow? Thanks, photographed today near creek early afternoon, Northern California.

Got with go pro right outside my house

Dark eye junco feeder battle

I'm thinking Red-shouldered, with the longish tail with dark bars wider than light, and the translucent crescent on the primaries when they're spread. Definitely leucistic on a couple wing feathers.

Based on the barring on the flanks in the first pic, and the length of the bill, I like Wilson's Snipe here.

yeah, that kind of has me thinking it's a domestic x wild but I sure couldn't say for sure. not a dumb question. It's been answered but, to expand a little... it's like chickens(as one mentioned) or even dogs. With the use of "domestic _____" it's kind of like saying domestic wolf when looking at a poodle. It really is no different. Their ancestors are wild mallards but in the poultry world, they're "breeds." A lot of them you find out in the wild are mutts rather than pure breeds but you'll find all sorts. The white on the front there is common with the swedish breed. This is not a pure swedish, which is why I kind of wonder if it's a swedish x wild mallard. But that's just speculation.

With the extensive white on the undertail, I would say Glue-gray Gnatcatcher.

With the yellow supercilium and the pale legs and the short tail, I like Savannah for all of them, including both birds in the first two pictures. But I could be wrong. Edit: Well, after being sniped by Blackburnian, I can't be wrong.

It doesn't look white to me in the photo, but I wasn't there. I've never seen a leucistic (that's how you spell it) Sandhill either, but they do exist. http://majikphil.blogspot.com/2018/08/floridas-rarest-birdall-white-sandhill.html

Can anyone ID this bird we saw in Delta, BC this morning? We tried Merlin on the image, but it thought it was a pigeon.

Bushtit perhaps.

BBC White-lined Hummingbird Moth 3-17-2019. DSC_0020 (2) by R. Tompkins, on Flickr

Agree with Canadas

Neither of them look significantly smaller than the others and the second is at an angle, so its beak is foreshortened. Both look like Canadas to me.

1 and 4 are Yellow-rumped Warblers. 2 is a Gnatcatcher, not sure which species. 3 is an American Goldfinch.

Vesper Sparrow.

me when i see a duck

Osprey - Roberts Bay, Sidney B.C

Yes. 3 males

I would say that all the scaups are greater (based on not having a peaked head). And I would say all the yellow legs are lesser (based on proportion of beak to head .. although I'm on the fence for the 1st and 3rd/4th photo.

Black-bellied Plover.

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) by hbvol50, on Flickr Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) by hbvol50, on Flickr

Another shot of a local Barred Owl.

At this point in time I have overlap between the winter resident rufous hummingbirds and the arriving black-chinned hummingbirds.

Wood Duck posing

A few birds from the way south. Go along with egg thief earlier. Antarctic Terns

Red Shouldered Hawk With watersnake Botanic Gardens Ft Worth 5-18 Red Shouldered HAwk by johnd1964, on Flickr