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  1. sfinmt
    The thin tail has me leaning to Least.
  2. sfinmt
    White-tailed
  3. sfinmt
    The dark cap, head profile, and facial spots arrangement look better for Surf scoter here. I couldn't detect any white in the wings where it should appear on a WWSC.
  4. sfinmt
    No expert here either. The gull in the bottom photo might be a Thayer's. Smallish bill, dark eye, broad white tertial crescent, pinkish legs (maybe?). In your middle photo, I think the two foreground gulls (one in flight) are adult non-breeeding Glaucous-winged.
  5. sfinmt
    Bill length looks like a Greater.
  6. sfinmt
    Sure looks like Brown-capped. What was the other opinion?
  7. sfinmt
    Why are you disimissing Dunlin? Bill looks too long for your three mentioned suspects. BASA and WRSA would also display the long primaries extended above the tail.
  8. sfinmt
    Sure looks like a Black Scoter, but with only the slightest hint of yellow or swelling on the bill. Perhaps someone with knowledge of their molt timing will weigh in.
  9. sfinmt
    Eared Grebe is correct. Note the culmen quite straight, almost appearing a bit upturned. A good field mark for separating Eared and Horned. The culmen of a Horned would be curving downward toward the tip, and the black/white border across the cheek quite distinct in comparison to Eared.
  10. sfinmt
    Red-tailed. Swainson's would have white undertail coverts.
  11. sfinmt
    Oct 8 in western Montana. Looking firstly at the tail pattern (what's left of the tail anyhow), the closest match appears to be Palm Warbler, but few other markings support this. Yellow underneath but with white vent area. Note the yellow patches on the chin and amongst behind the eye. Orange-crowned with an odd tail?
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