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The feeders often provide for some interesting interactions.

That doesn’t look great for YBFL either I think the OP’s bird is Acadian upon further inspection. Definitely an atypically yellow individual, which distracted me from looking at the more reliable distinguishers (primary projection, flat head)

Thanks all! I really appreciate the educational discussion. I'll have more to consider the next time I see something similar. For what it's worth a number of local birders have weighed in, and agree with Acadian. I had wondered if structure/build might offer clues, but I'm not savvy enough to understand some of those nuances. Most Acadians I see look like this bird (from the same checklist) so the yellow specimen definitely stood out.

Think call sounds fine for WCSP to me.

Least flycatcher……third county record….Maricopa county, Arizona

Had an amazing experience with an immature Cooper's Hawk a few years back.

I probably shouldn't be jumping in here given I've never seen either species (and I don't think I could identify an Acadian if I saw one). However when we get vagrant Yellow-bellied Flycatchers out here in California, they're indistinguishable visually from Pacific-slope Flycatchers (to the best of my knowledge). However, if I saw the above bird here in California, there's absolutely no way I would think that was a Pac-slope. I would check that bird super carefully as it doesn't fit any of our western empids well. And if Pac-slope and Yellow-bellied are indistiguishable visually, I think that's a point towards Acadian.

The elusive Green-masked Woodpecker:

Olive-sided Flycatcher https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608741326

My reaction was black bellied plover

Lots of butterflies flying around so I tried to catch this one as it flew across the yard. Not a huge butterfly, but the dandelion gives a good comparative for it's size, which is more relevant in the next photo. The size of this spider is really hard to judge due to it being hunched up while it feeds on a butterfly similar in size to the one above, possibly the same one. Notice the spider's body is almost as long as the butterfly. I suspect the spider actual shrunk considerably since I first noticed it, because it was MUCH larger when I first discovered it crawling up my pant leg the day before.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is not currently reviewable in DC on that date (Sep. 13), so the YBFL photos in that checklist were not seen by an eBird reviewer.

Uhh, any chance this could this be a Ruddy Turnstone? Probably not identifiable but still an interesting thought.

I don't know about "ruling out", but the bill looked small and dark to me. The Ponderosa Pine also suggests Hepatic much more than Summer. But I've been wrong before.

I have hit 1,000 observations of a single species, and it's the House Finch.

birdie 🐦 #480: 🟥🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛ I should've gotten it on the first guess. I have photographed this bird.

Not mine, but a Magnolia Warbler x American Redstart seen in Ontario. https://x.com/jamesslees/status/1701269242031599792?s=46

I'm not sure either, but that bill is pretty dark. Certainly fits HETA better.

No caption. Letting the image beak for itself.

I meant a wintering species, all the non wintering migrant species are also rare in the county.

All correct!

The powers that be are thinking that the throat is too pale for Yellow-bellied. So, putting it as Acadian.

Vermillion Flycatcher https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608704439

Finally, a picture of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo that isn't awful: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608773648

That was my other thought

birdie 🦢 #480: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ A field mark even I can recognize.

Seconding non-yellow-bellied here. Strikes me as a traills (willow/alder), though not certain.

Just to start this one off. Agree with empid but not striking me as a yellow-bellied (GISS, eye ring not quite bold enough?, chunky bill). However I hear these far more than I see them so interested in other opinions.

birdie 🦃 #480: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Habitat seems probably better for Hepatic than Summer. But I’m not sure how this bird is actually being identified? Personally I’m not sure.

econded. Hepatic Tanager's a good bird to get around here. Were you in Bandelier?

A little slow. I've only been coming here for the warblers. I may wait to go back until it's a little later in the season: https://ebird.org/checklist/S149635083

American Flamingo, the two in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. 🦩🦩

I shot this yesterday in southwest Wisconsin. Is this a Nashville Warbler? Thanks in advance. Karen Gramigna-Warren

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608632682

A sneak peek of the illustrations for my upcoming bird calendar. They are all done in watercolor and ink. @GracesWarbler

Green Heron: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608566900

1700 days consecutive checklist streak today.

bigger trout than i caught that day.