Bird Id.

[jdmidwest]

3 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

We just have these right now.

They are running out of places to keep their feet wet.  

They really like that creek coming in.  I guess your ramp is closed right now, looks like the whole arm froze over.

[Al Agnew]

7 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

Red shouldered hawk

Nope.  Cooper's hawk.  Red-shouldered hawks have a much shorter tail and black and white wings.  That's an immature Cooper's hawk.

[Al Agnew]

10 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Looking out the window at the bird buffet this morning and I have some new visitors.  Not sure what some of them are.

The orange flank white breasted one is skittish.  The red top bird is a wood pecker of some sort, but different plumage.  I think the black one is a starling, but feeds with the wood peckers.

In your top photo, it's an eastern towhee.  Used to be called a rufous-sided towhee, but the western version has a lot more white on its upper parts, so they finally separated them into two different species.  Right behind it is a white-throated sparrow.

The woodpecker in the second photo is a mature male yellow-bellied sapsucker.

Starling in winter plumage...they have those white spots in the winter, and not in the summer.

[Al Agnew]

10 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

These are common.

The little woodpecker in the fourth photo is a female downy woodpecker.  Males look the same except they have a small spot of red on the back of their head.  Hairy woodpeckers look almost exactly like downies, but are bigger and have a heavier beak.  The woodpeckers in the bottom photo are indeed red-bellied woodpeckers...two males and a female next to the starling on the ground.  They have a very washed out area of red, not always obvious, on their lower bellies, hence the name, but I've always thought it's not a real good name for them.

 

[Al Agnew]

9 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Here are a couple of more unknowns.  Red phase sparrow?  Don't know what the yellow headed one was from the other day.

As moguy said the bottom one is an American goldfinch in winter plumage.  The other one...either a male house finch or male purple finch.  Like Billethead, I'm about 90% sure it's a purple finch.  They've been pretty scarce around here for the last 10 years or more, but getting a good influx of them this winter.

[jdmidwest]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

As moguy said the bottom one is an American goldfinch in winter plumage.  The other one...either a male house finch or male purple finch.  Like Billethead, I'm about 90% sure it's a purple finch.  They've been pretty scarce around here for the last 10 years or more, but getting a good influx of them this winter.

He did not stay around long for a better pic.  It was cloudy and low light.

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

They really like that creek coming in.  I guess your ramp is closed right now, looks like the whole arm froze over.

Yeah it's all locked in as far down as Coconut's, except for areas where there is some spring influence.

[ness]

I’m pretty sure the sparrow to the right of the cardinal in your first picture is a White-crowned sparrow. Had a friend post one on FB yesterday.  

[Al Agnew]

1 hour ago, ness said:

I’m pretty sure the sparrow to the right of the cardinal in your first picture is a White-crowned sparrow. Had a friend post one on FB yesterday.  

Nope, it's a white-throated sparrow.  White-crowned sparrows have a different arrangement of the white on their heads, and lack the very obvious white throat and the little patch of yellow between their beak and eye (the area called a lore).  On white-crowned sparrows that area is black.

[Johnsfolly]

3 hours ago, ness said:

I’m pretty sure the sparrow to the right of the cardinal in your first picture is a White-crowned sparrow. Had a friend post one on FB yesterday.  

Ness as Al said it is a white throated sparrow. White throat patch on the males and the yellow patches above the eyes. Can be seen in JD's first photo. Females are much harder to id.

Make with crowned sparrow for comparison.