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Needed some help to ID this bird properly.  Thanks to JoshC and SnowyOwl for the help.

This is my favorite bird, and this one was far more magnificent than the picture can show.  I can't see one of these things without thinking of the song: Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take ...

Ok, ok.  I know.  It's a Pigeon.  But if you've ever lived in the downtown area of a big city, you'll look at this specimen and think: ''Wow!  That is the cleanest, healthiest, shiniest pigeon I've ever seen!'' I mean really!  He has both function feet, clear eyes, and no signs of a skin condition.  This is no ...

This is the more colorful of two young males that visit us from time to time.

At first, I thought this was a really dark finch, or maybe some sort of finch-junco hybrid, if such a thing is possible.  Thanks to David Lukas, I now know what it really is.  Summertime and baby birds!  Such a challenge!

I can't tell if this is a female, or a juvenile male.  Any comments on how to tell the difference?

Fortunately Mourning Dove's are pretty cooperative subjects.  This one actually sat still long enough to get a pretty good focus on.