Bird Identification

[dokutaaguriin]

I have never seen a bird like this before in my neck of the woods:

[organichris]

I'm afraid I can't see the bird.

[bcday]

My best guess is Yellow Warbler, either an older female or a young male that doesn't have all of the reddish streaks in his breeding plumage yet. Was it singing?

[dokutaaguriin]

Thanks for the id. I was looking out my east window at the garden (daydreaming)when I spot this bird on my columnar aspen that has just broke bud so it immediately caught my eye. I got my wife to grab my camera.
This is the second year in a row that a brightly coloured bird has visited out house. Normally we have robins,crows, magpies, sparrows, and a few hawks and that is about it.
Here is last year's bird (Scarlet Tanager- which is so extremely rare that less than fifteen sightings have been reported in Alberta.
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[organichris]

I looked again and saw it this time. I looked at it several times last time. Weird.

[robin303]

Here is a picture of my old bird. Had it for two years then one day it flew off never to see it again. Sorry guys I just had to do it.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by robin303

Here is a picture of my old bird. Had it for two years then one day it flew off never to see it again. Sorry guys I just had to do it.

Real funny Robin Real funny.

Worth

[dice]

Female goldfinch (the one in the first picture)?

[gardenpaws_VA]

Originally Posted by dice

Female goldfinch (the one in the first picture)?

No, not a goldfinch, even a female. They're duller and more greenish all over, and the wing color isn't barred as it is on this bird. It's been a LONG time since I saw a yellow warbler, but that would be my guess, also.