Also check out Charles B's excellent picture of Bc. Little Marmaid 'janet' over on the gallery. about one quarter B. nodosa. Name might be Mermaid but my orchid catalogue Marmaid.

ugogran, close guess on the tanager. The bill of a tanager is more conical and a bit shorter whereas the warbler has a thinner all-purpose. You can also see the start of the chestnut colored streaking on the breast that the tanager doesn't have. The eye-ring is still present so it's either young, or female. Females don't have the breast streaking so it's a first year male. Another easy way to tell the difference in a lot of birds, and something often overlooked, is the color of the legs. My father is an ornithologist and he taught me as a little kid to always look at the legs! Tanagers have grey legs whereas the yellow warbler has pink to light olive legs. Either one is quite welcome in our little corner of the planet :) Grackles...ugh. Right now we have a boatload of immatures hanging around all the water features. They love to pull on any nearby plant and it drive me bonkers. But hey, at least they aren't starlings.

I think we saw some in the back yard yesterday morning, but not sure. Still watching. Okay I looked it up and I want to see a blue gray gnatcatcher. Does it come to feeders? The yellow birds never come to the feeders. They just eat bugs from the trees. Like Bookmark

I don't think the yellow was quite so bright. I'm hoping to get another look at it. thanks