Any bird watchers

Are you using a Peterson field guide? If you're not, you're at a distinct disadvantage. Most other field guides suck.

Doc.
 
Gator said:
Hey CC86, what is the little sparrow looking bird w/ yellow at the base of it's wings (breast side)? We can't find our bird id books, and this critter just showed up...
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An online resource I like to use is WhatBird.com

They have a search engine that lets you enter attributes such as bird location, size, shape, family, color, and more. It's not the quickest engine around but it seems to be pretty complete. I did a rough search on sparrow-like birds, with yellow coloring, found in Florida and came up with three possibilities...

Golden-winged Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Myrtle Warbler

As for books, I use the Guide to the Birds of Alaska that I picked up on impulse one day. But I agree the Peterson Field Guides are great. I do intend to get one.
 
Cool. I believe it's a immature Yellow Rumped Warbler. Thanks for that site, it's VERY helpful
 
warbler's are tough to identify this time of year. In the winter the black streaked breast of the Myrtle(AKA yellow rumped) is hard to discern. It fades. It's yellow rump patch should be quite noticable however.

Doc.
 
I've seen the Yellow-Rumped Myrtle Warbler twice out on my deck...both times in the summer and not for long at that. After first seeing it, I had a helluva time identifying it because neither the rump nor the crown were prominently/visibly yellow. I spent quite a while in the guides looking for a bird with just the yellow on its wings until I finally matched the other markings after making better observations during the second sighting.
 
we've got hundreds of immature American Goldfinch that are coloring up more and more. If they stick around until spring, they oughta be colored up nicely. I'm feeding 20 lbs + a day now, they're pigging out
 
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