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Razorbill from a month or so ago, goin to try to post more often....

Snow Geese!

2 rarities: 1. Emperor Goose!! 2. Red-necked Grebe San Simeon, CA

In the "Help me Identify a North American Bird" forum: If you select the filter to show threads with "most replies" first, go to the last pages where there are a lot of threads that never got Identified... It's time to identify them or at least bump them up (which is what I have been doing).

I doubt Augusta National allows House Sparrows on the premises.

Without better photos, I'd call these small Canadas. Canada Geese vary tremendously in size; here in Colorado, a large Canada can be nearly double the size of a smaller one (most of this variation is based on subspecies). Also, the bill looks very long and I would expect a Cackling to be stubbier overall.

Song Sparrows have very strong dark malar stripe, much stronger than other melospiza sparrows (Lincoln's and Swamp).

Gray Catbird-6994 by peter spencer, on Flickr

Sharp-shinned Hawk? Black and White Warbler?

Elegant Tern came to our Maricopa County, AZ today. LIFER .

All Canadas...

This is actually a Mourning Dove.

All right everyone it is time to be serious, NO more ridiculousness! If everybody keeps posting in threes poor Aveschapines will be so busy deleting posts he might leave, and we would loose the greatest moderator ever. Now lets talk about something important! Now the difference between Eastern Screech-Owls and Western Screech-Owls...Now that sums it up, the difference between Screech-Owls is that one lives in the west and one lives in the east.

Despite the sheets of rain that fell almost all day, I got some photos of a some birds that swamped my feeder during a short break in the rain.

Ross's goose!

Great Egret

Tern array by johnd1964, on Flickr from a while back

Yep, Northern Pintail.

Yes, that is a male Northern Pintail.

I agree with Sharp-shinned and Black-and-white Warbler.

Red-tailed Hawk is correct. Note the very bulky build, faint belly band, and red tail.

Agreed. First photo is of Least, others are predominantly Semipalmated with a few Least mixed in.

Least Sandpiper in the first photo, but I think the other photos are Semipalmated Sandpiper, as they are more grayish than brownish, paler overall in color, dark legs and short straight tubular bills.

Least Sandpiper? Let's see what the other say.

immature Song Sparrow

My first thought was Chipping Sparrow...

...or cameras! Okay so maybe this was during the practice rounds--Mon-Wed? I don't know about the bird. My first thought was Northern Mockingbird but I'm really not sure.

Yep all Redheads

Agreed

This gull is far too bulky and its bill is much too big for a Thayer's. I like Olympic Gull (Glaucous-winged x Western Gull hybrid) more on the Glaucous-winged side of things. Wait for more opinions.

Least Sandpiper immature Red-tailed Hawk

As was I.

Agree with Vermilion Flycatcher.

Its body seems just as long as the Canada's, though. I bet there is a lot of distortion going on at that distance.

Agreed.

Looks like a drab Vermilion Flycatcher.

#1 is actually a House finch. The face pattern isn't nearly bold enough for a Purple and the culmen (upper ridge of the beak) is much too curved.

Yellow-bellied Elaenia Olive-throated Parakeet Green Kingfisher Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Yes, Eastern Phoebe.

I agree with Bald Eagle.

This looks like a juvenile Hutton's Vireo. Wait for other opinions...

American Tree Sparrow. Note the yellow lower mandible and white wingbars.