And finally from Florida... (1 Viewer)

[Daddylion]

Just a few IDs and bad pics I'd like to clear up. Thanks!

1- In an open field with grackles, ibises and a gull or two. Another Grackle?
2- In a dry, heavily forested swamp. No idea.
3- Same place as 2, no idea as well.
4&5- These next two are I belive the same species. Beautiful hawks they were!

 

[Daddylion]

6- Sora?
7- Almost positive this is a mockingbird, but just need confirmation.
8- Snowy Egret

Thanks!

 

[Tero]

The hawk is red shouldered.

 

[Daddylion]

Thanks!

 

[Daddylion]

Magnificent Frigatebird?

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Yes to the mocker, snowy and frigatebird (and I agree with red-shoulder).

The first one looks like another grackle. I think the eye just looks dark rather than it actualy being dark. If it is really dark, it's a cowbird, probably brown-headed.

There's something about #2 that says white-eyed vireo to me, but I really can't say for sure.

 

[Daddylion]

Thanks Jeff. Sorry, I know numbers 2 & 3 are really bad.
Ok, about #6: It was about dove size, maybe even smaller. when it flew off, the wings had some red on them. I was thinking rail but I could be wrong.

 

[ovenbird43]

I agree #2 looks like a White-eyed Vireo.

#3 looks like a Hooded Warbler, with the white outer tail feathers, although I can't tell if the faint "hood" is really there or if I'm imagining it in the shadows.

 

[Kratter]

Number 2 and 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler, in molt

 

[MLoyko]

Magnificent Frigatebird is easy to tell with that Pterodactyl like wing shape. agreed on the hawk and mocker. I thought yellow rumped for 2&3 as well.

 

[Daddylion]

I've got a little better pic of the "YRW", if this helps.

And can this dove thing be ID'd as well? Don't worry, we're getting close to the end.

 

[Kratter]

I've got a little better pic of the "YRW", if this helps.

And can this dove thing be ID'd as well? Don't worry, we're getting close to the end.

The dove is a Common Ground-Dove.

If photos 2-3 are the same bird, I will stick with YR Warbler. But the new photo looks more like a White-eyed Vireo (even shows a white eye and yellow lores, if these are not photographic artifacts), as previously suggested. But WE Vireo does not have white in the tail and you do not often see them perched on open pine branches. When were the photos taken? YR Warblers are gone from Florida by 20 April or so.

Andy

 

[Daddylion]

Kratter, these photos were taken on Sunday, May 24.

 

[Kratter]

The date is too late for YR Warbler. Looking further at the photos, the bill is too thin for any vireo, so I will now introduce the likely candidate: Pine Warbler.

Juvenile Pine Warblers can be difficult, often with some yellow blotches. The tail looks good (photo 3). The habitat is as expected. Fun to work with your photos.
Andy

 

[Daddylion]

Sweet Kratter, thanks! So if there are no further objectons, Pine Warbler it is.
Numbers 2 and 3 could be the same bird, but they were taken at different times, so it's unlikely.
All that's left to ID are numbers 3 and 6. (Sorry, the pics are :storm:... well you know)

 

[Jim M.]

I would go with White-eyed Vireo for photos #2 & #10 (i.e. the last photo posted at this point). (I think #3 is a different bird--the other photos don't show the tattered tail but this one shows). Photo #2 shows a white throat, which would be inconsistent with a Pine Warbler that had that much yellow on the breast. Both photos also show a dark underside to the tail, which would be consistent with White-eyed Vireo, and inconsistent with Pine Warbler.

As for #6, what the heck is that? Looks like the reproduction of a bird shot through a shower curtain or something? Is that actually a live bird?

Best,
Jim

 

[OK Birder]

Might want to keep in mind that the birds do not read the date guides. lol

 

[Daddylion]

Oh, trust me, it's a live bird. It's just a really, really bad photo. It's got its back to us, and its head is looking right.

 

[birderbf]

I think I got it ... #6 is another ground-dove. All the colors actually match up quite well, in a sort of artistic way! The orange beak, pinkish face, blue nape, brown-olive back, greener tail and rump, dark flecking and edges to wing feathers, white undertail. What a fun ID excersize!

http://www.stetson.edu/~pmay/grodo207.jpg

I assume the bird was on a railing that meanders away from the viewer, right? It took me a while to convince myself I was not looking at a bird in a plastic bag!

 

[Daddylion]

Ok, I've drawn it out as near as I can figure out.

Hope this helps.