I have never seen so many different birds in one day and never had to leave my backyard! Baltimore and orchard orioles in abundance. I was finally able to ID this puzzling oriole that I saw last year and again this year. It was an immature Orchard oriole, more yellow colored, head yellow, not black, and a black mark under beak and upper chest. Rose-breasted grosbeak, male and female, indigo bunting, swainson's thrush, common yellowthroat warbler, yellow warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, palm warbler (spotted again), blackpoll warbler and black and white warbler. I also think there is a Tennessee warbler but their colors are so non-assuming that I still cannot make a positive ID. Considering the wind yesterday and the cool temperatures, not a bad day at all. Hoping today to see some new ones. Happy birding everyone.
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