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Anyone know what the bird in the attached is? I was unable to identify. It looks a bit like a thrasher, but it is smaller, longish tail for its size, white mark above eye, likes to loudly sing multiple melodies from the top of a pine tree.
Brown thrashers have tails as long as their bodies-- that could be it.
The picture also looks like it could be a female Red Breasted Grossbill-- based on coloration and blunt body shape, although the tail looks long for that-- can't see the bill, which would be, well, "gross" ie- big.
Both the Yellow and the Black-billed cuckoos have long tails, but they're white on the belly, not striped.
I'll try for more pictures - it is elusive though! It took me a long time to get that photo. The bill is pretty short. I have looked at Cornell info online and Audubon online as well as a book I have, and then listened to the songs on macaulaylibrary.org of the likely candidates, as you all mentioned, and no luck. Will keep trying.
I have a wood thrush nearby that I've never actually seen, but the song was easy to identify. I am not a bird-watcher, but I get curious about birds new to me, as I am "not from around here".
Maybe the short bill, if conical, would indicate Rose breasted Grosbeak...female
I'll take another look later after work, but I listened to that bird's song yesterday and it didn't match. This bird has multiple songs, but the one I hear the most is 3 loud, clear notes closely followed by a low-pitched not as loud staccato; then one loud/clear note lower than the first; then two loud/clear notes lower than that with a low-pitched note between and after the last two. At a distance you can only hear the top three, then middle, then the 2 lower.
I'm not an expert...wouldn't recognize the song...
the beak looks like female Rose-breasted Grossbeak....conical shape for opening seed...
we are at the very eastern edge of their summer range.
I wish some of these wildlife biologists and etc would speak up...we have some on cd
Oh the Sparrow is 6 inches, the Grossbeak 8, the Thrasher 11 inches....
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