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Tufted Puffin! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478890621 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478890631

Brown Booby!!!

Western Kingbird.

And then there's THIS... The most helpful of all!!

Agreed! Ship it to SC and we'll see how "just' it is here!

Western Gull https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478905031 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478905101

Gotta go with another closeup: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478842991

RIP This thread ? Sorry y'all. I moved to Corpus Christi to start a new job and haven't had much free time to post! Not sure if that will change, but I'm kinda thinking of bringing back this thread. Starting with dowitchers...

This is a Red-tailed Hawk, note the super dark patagials and that thick belly stripe.

Here's a terrible joke I found ? One day a man was walking in the woods when he got lost. For two days he roamed around trying to find a way out. He had not eaten anything during this period and was famished. Over on a rock ledge he spotted a bald eagle. He killed it, and started to eat it. Surprisingly, a couple of park rangers happen to find him at that moment, and arrested him for killing an endangered species. In court, he pleads innocent to the charges against him, claiming that if he didn't eat the bald eagle he would have died from starvation. The judge ruled in his favor. In the judge's closing statement he asked the man, "I would like you to tell me something before I let you go. I have never eaten a bald eagle, nor ever plan on it, but what did it taste like?" The man answered, "Well, it tasted like a cross between a whooping crane and a spotted owl!"

"Just"? ?

My friend Nick Stroot sent me a contribution to the guide...

For months I have been planning to make a guide that would, once and for all, settle all tricky IDs and make them easy. I have tried many different methods for Identifying birds, but none have worked so well as the one I have settled on to use in my guide. I hope you all will now have mastery over difficult identifications and enrich your birding experience greatly. Now Presenting... THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BIRD IDENTIFICATION!

Favorite photo of the day yesterday:

Is there enough white on the throat for a Great, maybe a juvenile Double-crested. A Great would be quite a find for the location.

Your peep is a Least Sandpiper. Baird’s have dark legs and wingtips that extend past their tail feathers.

A rather evil looking one at that?

Yes. ANHU.

Great, thanks for the ideas! I decided to manually order the birds, so they're semi-random. Also, I made a cover! I'll probably keep working on it, but what do you all think? The colors look a bit different here, so I may have to change it further.

Lazuli bunting

Really getting creative now - Golden-winged x Blue-winged or Brewster's Warbler ?.

Little Blue Heron. Please Rate. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/479124001

I'm not the gull expert here, but bill shape looks off for Herring. @AlexHenry @DLecy I don't remember who we usually go to for gulls...

Xantus's Becard

Wood Stork! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/479041031

I think number 6 is a Golden-Plover and personally I would lean to American (based on primary and tertial structure) however is probably better left unidentified as American/Pacific without seeing it from other angles and untucked. what we can see of the rump and tail between the wings shows no white

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/472667071 H/t Rosemary Mosco on twitter

More likely in Corpus Christi

It is a bells vireo, and I think it is the eastern subspecies.

This is the very guide I go by!!!

I like juvenile Ring-billed Gulls for all three.

I do often have to distinguish these, but generally not in sub-adult plumage since they're migrants during northern winter here. I look at the face pattern and underbody. I would probably call this a Black-Throated Green, but the third picture looks way too olive on the nape and back; could that be photo artifacts? (It doesn't really fit for Townsend's either.)

That's what was giving me pause too was the facial pattern seemed far too bold. I really should have paid more attention to it in the field. Sometimes I forget that similar birds exist! I just haven't found a photo yet of a Townsends that is as white as this bird is on the chest.

Before I look at my field guide, something about the facial pattern looks off for Black-throated Green, as someone who sees them fairly regularly.

150 for the county! White Ibis and Wood Stork were 150 and 151 respectively.

looked up and caught 9 Double-crested Cormorants headed south... Yes, 9, one was a straggler and didn't make the shot...

Not sure my tinfoil hat has slipped quite enough to allow this one in.

I almost shared this as my best pic of the day, but to be true to the thread, posted the closeup of the Double-crested Cormorant. I do, however, need to share the love for this Gray-headed Swamphen working hard to carry nesting material that's taller than then bird itself. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478842921

Not the best shots but I love Black Terns.

Been falling way behind on my photos recently, but I recently got a new lens and it feels like it's already delivering. :) Here's a Least Flycatcher to kick off silent Empid season. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478605661

Western Kingbird https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478551421 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478551391

A very green Green Heron! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478489521 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478489511

Common Yellowthroat

Maybe I should say 'coot picture'

(Domestic type) never went on a life list in eBird. I'm not sure how escapee showed, but sounds like maybe it showed on a life list in eBird.

It could be photo artifacts as this camera is a 8 or so year old digital camera and usually does some weird exposures, though the aspen leaves are the correct colour. This was taken in the morning so I suppose the colours are warmer than normal, but that doesn't seem to be affecting the surrounding image.... It better be there tomorrow morning!

I agree with @Quiscalus quisculaquiscula it seems more like a black throated green warbler. I am not an expert though. The last photo of your bird looks a lot like a juvenile/imm. Black Throated Green Warbler https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/167694931#_ga=2.88197842.814806781.1661704978-220816703.1655990483

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478292031 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/478292021