Today in my yard I saw a very small full breasted greyish bird with a thick bright yellow stripe ..?

Question

the bird had a thick yellow stripe ontop of its head and some yellow accents on the wings. Can anyone tell me what type of bird this might have been. If not can you provide me with a software or a program or site that can help me to identify birds?

Answer 1

sounds like a warbler...but hard to tell from just this description, and not knowing where you live. The two that pop into mind with that coloring could possibly be a Yellow-rumped Warbler, or Golden-winged Warbler. (maybe a female)

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i6420id.html
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?allSpecies=y&searchText=Yellow-rumped+Warbler&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=1

Answer 2

I wish you had mentioned where you were when you saw t his bird. I live half the time in Indiana, and there is no such bird there. The rest of the time I live in Costa Rica, and there are many, many birds with yellow accents head and wing. I keep a copy of "Aves de Costa Rica" to identify them.

Several of the little wrens present a lot of yellow feather. They sound like a Carolina wren, but they are yellow. Very very pretty.

Answer 3

it extremely is surely an oriole, the question is Scott's or Audubon's. seems to me like it has yellow on it extremely is bigger back so i could say that makes it an Audubon's. additionally, theoretically, Scott's is barely interior the US in summer season. And Audubon's is proscribed to south Texas (which, by the form, is a great place to be certain birds -- you have have been given some extremely cool birds down that way, i could like to have green Jays at my feeder). stable job with the image.

Answer 4

Sounds like a oriole.Cant remember if there yellow or orange.If not it could be a finch.Also the Northern Cardinal is that color.

Answer 5

Do you know you're living on a desert island - how did you get broadband? Satellite?