Melierax

Hermit Thrush?

Intergrade: And a pure YS, rare, in my yard: For some reason I don't have any good ones of red-shafted...

Sounds like a raptor to me if anything (Mississippi Kite?), but I agree with @AlexHenrythat the description is just too vague to ID off of. You could compare what you saw to Mississippi Kite for us:

If you hear a bird it's basically just another form of noticing the bird is there, so I count heard birds.

54 is my first non-zoomed in count. Now let's go in for detail... 5 HOME, 18 MALL, 8 RNDU, 1 AMWI, 5 GADW, 2 CANV, 2 LESC... and that one duck in the water that might be a RNDU. I counted 56 going through all again... idk what happened to the others I didn't put down as species lol.

This is impossible. Here's a decent one. I like it because of the foliage, not necessarily the sharpness of the bird.

Gray Catbird?

Male and female Nuttall's

I don't know which one I like better:

That's a Virginia Rail. That's one of the many calls they can make. EDIT: Apparently that's the "female song"

Black-backed Woodpecker

Acorn Woodpecker

Yep!

no

Nope