[Birdtalk] Help Me Identify Birds

[Fish, Michael]

I have posted a few pictures on pbase of birds that I am unable to
identify. I'm not suggesting that these birds are rare or anything
spectacular, rather I am just asking for help identifying them because
of my inexperience or newness to the birding community. 

 

One of the birds is a flycatcher that was hanging around our cabin at
Panguitch Lake all weekend. A lot of the flycatchers look the same to
me. 

 

Also while I was at Panguitch Lake, I had a quick glimpse of a pair of
birds that became very agitated with me when I presumably walked into
their nesting area. These little birds were jumping all around me in the
pines and wouldn't hold still long enough for me to get a good picture.
I managed to get a couple blurry pictures of one of them that had a red
crested head. The other bird didn't have any red and I didn't get a
photo of that one. I am assuming they were a mated pair. They were maybe
Ruby-crowned Kinglets as near as I can tell from my field guides? The
red crest on this bird seemed broader than pictures in my guides and on
Utah Birds.

 

Another bird is a dove of some sort - I think. I work out near
Promontory and I saw this dark looking dove sitting on a wire as I was
driving down the road. I was able to get a couple of pictures of it
before I had to move for traffic. I'll bet other drivers hate bird
watchers - always stopping at the sight of a bird by the road. Some of
those other drivers have shown me their bird - it's a quite common bird
found year round and nationwide J.  

 

Anyway - pictures of my unknown birds are posted at www.pbase.com/mfish


 

I named the Gallery "Birds - Help Me Identify"

 

Thanks for your help and for sharing your knowledge.

 

Mike Fish

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