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[PanHanNE]

All taken in Garden County NE different dates/years

1> Possibly a horned lark fledgeling? It was on the dirt road, no trees around... the only other bird nearby at the time was a horned lark.
May 2007



2>The bald face and fluffy eyebrows on the one are throwing me off, I think. Could the eyebrows actually be from the cattails?
My first reaction was female redwing blackbirds.
June 2007


3>No ideas.
June 2007


4>
I'm thinking this might be a young brown thrasher. (two views)
May 2009

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5>Could it be juvenile starlings with the glossy black breasts with white speckles? But why the brown heads?
October 2010

[Liam]

1. Confirmed
2. Female RWBB confirmed
3. Brown-headed Cowbirds, I think
4. Female House Finch
5. Subadult Starlings.

[creeker]

I'll confirm those Cowbirds, since they were the only ones in semi-question.

[TheBillyPilgrim]

Agree with all Liam and Creeker's IDs. Cute shot of the juvie Horned Lark!

[PanHanNE]

Thank you again! I don't know how you do it! I have so very few birds I am confident of identification at a glance... and even those I sometimes have trouble with on some of the lousy photos I take. Someday maybe I will get good enough to help others. If I live that long!