Cookie, is is a Gray Catbird. They are such cool little birds! I bet they would like you more if you gave them some of the food they like. They LOVE suet..especially peanutbutter suet dough, jelly and oranges. Normally each year we have them coming up to our feeders on our deck but not this year. I miss them! Donna

Beautiful bird, unfortunate fate. I've never seen an ovenbird out of a forest. I live in the middle of a suburban area pretty far from any big forests. Unfortunate my only sighting was a dead one out here, though. Don't want him to just rot away but if anything why not let the bugs do their job. I might just move the body to a heavily planted area to let the little ecosystem get to work.

It's a robin.

Thanks, Old Forester! I thought #7 was a catbird given the color (and I could hear a few in the park ). I hadn't see a mockingbird this year in DC till this one. #5, 6, 9 were all foraging on the ground and there were several of them in mixed flocks with the mourning doves. The beaks of all three and the colors on 5 - I was hoping they were some kind of grosbeaks. Thanks again!