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[Fragglecat]

Hi! Birding a bit in south Texas this weekend, near Victoria. This was in an oak woodland.

The first, a chestnut-sided warbler?




The second... maybe a yellow-rumped warbler? The yellow tail is throwing me off. I didn't get a decent shot, but have some other photos with snippets of one end or another of it, if more is needed!




Thank you!

[GWD Photo]

Chestnut-sided confirmed and the second is a female American Redstart.

[Adore707]

agreed

[PragerBirds]

Hi fragglecat!

I totally agree with the Chestnut Sided. White eyepatch, red sides. I'm about 4 hours south of Victoria and I saw one this weekend, too!

I wonder if this second picture is an American Redstart. The females have the yellow wing bars that are nice and clear on your bird. Yellow-rumped Warblers have yellow armpits (or wingpits?), but I've never seen one with these bars.

[PragerBirds]

Hi fragglecat!

I totally agree with the Chestnut Sided. White eyepatch, red sides. I'm about 4 hours south of Victoria and I saw one this weekend, too!

I wonder if this second picture is an American Redstart. The females have the yellow wing bars that are nice and clear on your bird. Yellow-rumped Warblers have yellow armpits (or wingpits?), but I've never seen one with these bars.

[Sparky the Cuttlefish]

Chestnut-sided Warbler and American Redstart seconded thirded.

[Fragglecat]

Yessss! The yellow on the fanned-out tail is a good match for American Redstart. Thanks all for the id and confirmation!

[BarnSwallow]

Could that be a male redstart? Looks awfully black for a female. Maybe it looks yellow because of the picture or the lighting. Are there ever yellower ones due to diet?

[GWD Photo]

Could that be a male redstart? Looks awfully black for a female. Maybe it looks yellow because of the picture or the lighting. Are there ever yellower ones due to diet?

It could be a 1st year male...I'm not quite sure what they look like though..

[Fragglecat]

Could that be a male redstart? Looks awfully black for a female. Maybe it looks yellow because of the picture or the lighting. Are there ever yellower ones due to diet?

I'm not sure about diet, but in the other (even sketchier) photos, and by binocular, the field marks were quite yellow. The photos were taken in the afternoon, in shady trees, so those factors might contribute to darkness, but it did look like a dark bird. Also had a pale throat and dark breast band.

These are so sketchy! Consider yourself warned It was my first day trying to learn manual focusing.

[Liam]

Yeah, I think there's enough black to consider this a young male.