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Brown Creeper IMG_3700 by lonestranger102, on Flickr

Red-tailed hawks are quite variable in their appearance, including the visibility and brightness/darkness of their belly band. Some jump right out at you and look solid brown on a white belly, some show just faint flecks that barely show up on the white belly, and then there's the dark morphs that are dark overall and the belly band matches the same colour as the rest of the bird making the belly band even harder to pick up on. That's just a few of the variables. Isn't IDing birds fun?

Isn't that a WITCH owl?

Is it possible to have two best sides?

You wasted a perfectly good Y and O on your House Finch, lonesome55dove. I would have saved the variants for further down the alphabet, but I'm a cheater like that.

Green Heron

Yellow Warbler I didn't even have to cheat on that one. 😁

How about a Wooden-legged Goose?

Vireo Red-eyed Too slow

Hmmm, I'm not sure ours has ever lasted long enough to have to throw it away. As I said, the squirrels and chipmunks like the jelly too and they do a good job to make sure there's no waste. We only put out a big tablespoon or two at a time, which becomes a daily thing later in the season when the young start showing up. We don't see much of the orioles during nesting season though, they must be eating the same insects they're feeding their young and ignoring the fruit table.

We have pretty good luck with the jelly here in Ontario. All we do is use a plastic lid, usually from a plastic peanut butter jar, as a dish and secure it to our fruit table with a small screw. We use grape jelly and it's often just the cheap no name stuff. It does attract ants, squirrels, chipmunks, etc., so don't set it up right at your front door. The orioles are probably attracted as much by the orange halves we put out but they dive right into the jelly when they find it. The adults have fed the young ones jelly but the young are usually feeding themselves by the time we see them on the fruit table. Not only do the orioles here love the grape jelly but the cardinals, catbirds, and grosbeaks enjoy it too. I highly recommend a fruit table/station with any combination of grape jelly and assorted fruits, orange halves and watermelon slices work great for us. The orioles also like the sugar water mix we feed the hummers, we don't have an actual oriole feeder but they get their fill easy enough from the hummingbird feeders. I'm not sure if this link will work, but page 13 of my flickr photo stream has some pics of orioles at the fruit table from our old place. https://www.flickr.com/photos/27232701@N04/with/20420995539/

Sometimes you just get the urge to do silly stuff with your photos. 🎬

Sorry LeopARTnik, I wasn't trying to confuse you. I can't help with your ID but I thought that bumping this back up to the top might help get more experienced eyes on it.

Bump

We might as well dream of winning the lottery too. @Administrator sounded committed to adding more forums back in September and mentioned it again in October but nothing has happened yet. I think we're just adding to our own frustration by pursuing this any further. The members have spoken, in more ways than one, but it doesn't seem like the right people are listening. As for the Canada Goose term, I have to agree with you that it's weird not to use the term Canadian Goose. Being from Canada, and knowing better, I use the term "Canadian Geese" when referring to the plural but use Canada Goose when referring to an individual. It just seems to roll off the tongue better for me that way. Everyone knows what bird(s) I am referring to either way I say it so I never worry about which term I use.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that your other picture probably shows the yellow rump of the yellow-rumped warbler.

It says here that you need 250-400MB to install the app. Hopefully that answers your question.

You have some funny looking cattle down there.

I think you got the wrong lone but I appreciate the thought.

Zebra finch

If you're really creative(cheat) and can find a bird with an X somewhere in it's name, you could rearrange the letters and come up with an X bird. I used up my creativity on X with my "Xwing Cedar Wa". https://forums.whatbird.com/index.php?/topic/37-alphabet-birds/&do=findComment&comment=14743

I've been waiting for Z but keep missing my chance. Drawing a blank on X, even creative ones.

This sure looks like a red-tailed hawk to me. The belly band is an obvious indicator for me. The barred tail is typical of immature birds and also seen on some west coast adults. While I always second guess myself because there are similar looking birds in different ranges that I'm not familiar with, I am fairly confident it's a red-tailed and not a sharp-shinned hawk.

Welcome to Whatbird, G_kayaker. I have to ask, Is that a birding phrase that I've never heard before?....or was that a typo that resulted in auto correct making that ID for you?

While we're on the subject of presenting changes to the forums, I'd like to suggest that we also ask to have the Edit feature changed from it's five minute time limit back to the old way with no time limit for editing our posts. It's frustrating when you can't correct a silly typo, and even more frustrating when you can't correct a critical typo that confuses those reading it. Lets face it, we don't always notice the obvious right away and it's easy to hit the wrong keys or have auto correct change a typo into the wrong word without us noticing it. If you submit your post and run to the bathroom before reading it, there's a good chance you won't be able to edit your post when you come back if you notice a typo in it. I know that I'm not only one frustrated with the current Edit time limit, I've seen it mentioned over and over again so lets add it to the suggested changes.