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[jeffroscoe]

NW Washington, today Newhalem, Ross Lake NRA, specifically. Warbler of some sort, we think.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffroscoe/7436710204/ Several pics, so click around. Had a bad angle, most of them are of the vent area.

[sdearth]

don't know what this bird is, but can you post a pic of your #173 Rhinoceros Auklet

[jeffroscoe]

Already posted: http://www.whatbird....__fromsearch__1

[jeffroscoe]

As long as you're hazarding, you might try this terrible pic. Maybe a Spotted Towhee, but they usually aren't up in the trees like this. Same location and day. Thanks.

http://www.flickr.co...coe/7437173452/

[Grandpa577]

As long as you're hazarding, you might try this terrible pic. Maybe a Spotted Towhee, but they usually aren't up in the trees like this. Same location and day. Thanks.

http://www.flickr.co...coe/7437173452/

How about a male American Redstart?

[psweet]

Possibly Wilson's Warbler?

[fisherman1313]

NW Washington, today Newhalem, Ross Lake NRA, specifically. Warbler of some sort, we think.
http://www.flickr.co...coe/7436710204/ Several pics, so click around. Had a bad angle, most of them are of the vent area.

I agree with Wilson's.

As long as you're hazarding, you might try this terrible pic. Maybe a Spotted Towhee, but they usually aren't up in the trees like this. Same location and day. Thanks.
http://www.flickr.co...coe/7437173452/

I also got a redstart vibe on this one.

[jeffroscoe]

How about a male American Redstart?

Grandpa, you're a genius. That is the bird I went up there trying to find. I'd seen an eBird report of them in that area. I'm not a genius or I'd have thought of at least looking at A. Redstart myself. Doh!!!

Anybody else think it's a Redstart? It's a lifer, so I'd like to have a couple confirmations.

I see Birder, List Collector is thinking Redstart, too.. Thanks.

Edited by jeffroscoe, 25 June 2012 - 02:57 AM.

[psweet]

Yes, that second photo looks like a male Redstart.

[TheBillyPilgrim]

Agree with Redstart. Nice bird for your area.

[jblakelock]

Some of the pictures of the first warbler show a definite whitish spot where the legs meet the body. Is that consistent with Wilson's?

[Grandpa577]

On the first bird, what would rule out Yellow Warbler?

[jblakelock]

The tail doesn't seem right for Wilson's: not dark enough. You can see this especially in some of the later pictures.

Grandpa, I was looking at Yellow and thought you would see some of the Yellow's thin streaking, but I don't see it any of these pictures. Plus there's the white patch. Do Yellow's show that? Maybe this is an Alaskan Yellow, but not sure what their range is. But, you're right, the eye in the first picture seems to point to Yellow. I was tentatively thinking Nashville, but the eye doesn't seem right.

[psweet]

That first bird isn't a Yellow -- any plumage of yellow should show yellow tail spots and yellow edges on the wing coverts. The tail seems dark enough for Wilson's for me, but it seems a bit short compared to the undertail coverts. It is true that the white patch doesn't fit, but I can't find anything that should have that patch that would have that blank face.

[Totah Sam]

As long as you're hazarding, you might try this terrible pic. Maybe a Spotted Towhee, but they usually aren't up in the trees like this. Same location and day. Thanks.

http://www.flickr.co...coe/7437173452/

They have a tendency to be not where you expect.

[jblakelock]

psweet, I see what you mean about the Wilson's Warbler tail. My guidebook shows a completely dark brown - almost black - tail below, and describes the tail as being completely dark above and below. But when I look at actual pictures of Wilson's Warblers the tail is more nuanced and appears lighter with even some yellow and white. Now if it only wasn't for that patch of white underneath.