This Fall I published a picture of an unidentified bird, though I think I ventured a couple of guesses, hoping that a reader might have more knowledge than I did.
Shortly after that I was on a web site and knew immediately that the bird that they identified as a Yellow-Rumped Warbler was the bird that I had been unable to identify:
Of course, in Spring I included several shots of Yellow-Rumped Warblers, the first time I’d ever managed to get a shot of one before.
It’s hard for me to believe that these could be the same bird, but apparently they are. The one on the top is in it’s winter, non-breeding, colors while the one on the bottom is all dressed up to catch a mate.
Small wonder I have so much trouble identifying birds from birding books, and why more than a few times I’ve just plain been wrong when identifying them.