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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peter C." data-source="post: 1491746" data-attributes="member: 68872">Thank you, thank you, I get it now!! It's astonishing how perception is changed by expectation. I was in the "bird obscured by an unfurled roll of cling wrap" camp as well :h?: Just couldn't figure out what it (that is, the cling wrap) was doing on a boardwalk. But ground-dove  on a wooden railing makes sense.Peter C.P.S. I really don't know if nos. 2 and 3 are doable with any degree of certainty. I think that #2 could be a White-eyed Vireo, but wouldn't bank on it. I'm pretty familiar with Pine Warblers in the hand, and that's way too much white in the tail in #3; especially for a "young" (i.e. retained juvenile) tail, which I believe this is (holy points, Batman!). Hooded Warbler is a possibility, but not much else to support that diagnosis here. There could be some totally different species that I'm not thinking of that fits better. I vote for "warbler sp." for this one.</blockquote>