Backyard Finches and Sparrows

[bpresby]

Here are three I'm confirming, well 2 to confirm and one is a guess.  All taken last weekend in southern California.  

House Finch

 

 

#2

Song Sparrow (not confident).  I've had more Chipping Sparrows around, but this one doesn't match and was smaller then the Song Sparrows I have identified 

#3  Yellow Rumped Warbler?  No confidence in this one.  I know we have many variations of these in my area.  

 

All help appreciated. 

Thanks

[akandula]

All are correct!

For the Song Sparrow, note the thick, blurry streaking on the underside. Size is difficult to judge in the field.

For the Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's subspecies), note the yellow patches on the sides.

[bpresby]

Thank you!  I'm starting to get the hang of this :)

 

B

[akiley]

1 hour ago, akandula said:

All are correct!

For the Song Sparrow, note the thick, blurry streaking on the underside. Size is difficult to judge in the field.

For the Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's subspecies), note the yellow patches on the sides.

Both Myrtle and Audubon's have yellow on the sides. Did you mean throat?

Edited February 11, 2020 by akiley

[akandula]

29 minutes ago, akiley said:

Both Myrtle and Audubon's have yellow on the sides. Did you mean throat?

I wanted to give an important field mark for the species overall to differentiate it from many different species of warblers. I didn't know if the OP really wanted to know specific ssp -- I just added it in case. Of course, the yellow throat is the feature that says Audubon's. Sorry about the confusion.

[Tony Leukering]

18 hours ago, akandula said:

I wanted to give an important field mark for the species overall to differentiate it from many different species of warblers. I didn't know if the OP really wanted to know specific ssp -- I just added it in case. Of course, the yellow throat is the feature that says Audubon's. Sorry about the confusion.

I wasn't confused. Since "Audubon's" was noted only inside parentheses, the following phrase is not referable to it, but to the subject of the sentence, the Yellow-rumped Warbler.

[Charlie Spencer]

1 hour ago, Tony Leukering said:

I wasn't confused. Since "Audubon's" was noted only inside parentheses, the following phrase is not referable to it, but to the subject of the sentence, the Yellow-rumped Warbler.

We're not all grammarians.

Edited February 12, 2020 by Charlie Spencer

[millipede]

2 hours ago, Charlie Spencer said:

We're not all grammarians.

From the planet grammaria?  I've only visited... odd place. They always usin them thar fancy words n stuff...

okay... I'm tempted to really go off topic... I'm done. ?