This bird is a tough one (maybe not for you). I know what it is (?) as I have this puzzle every year.
He is back today and took a bath.
About the best thing a 'porch bird watcher' can do is get off his ass long enough to build a water feature. Many birds don't come to feeders, but all come to water. My yard borders on a 150 mile shoreline, but many birds choose my crap over that. I put in lots of cover and lots of places to land. Places to land are very important as birds like to look things over before they 'plunge'. Hollies are good as they provide all that, and as a bonus produce berries. Shallow is best. Moving is great. I also have a deep turtle/koi pond, and birds hate it.
This could be a Tenneessee Warbler. Probably it is a Pine Warbler or maybe not a warbler --> Yelllow-throated Vireo? It is a dead match for a young Chestnut-sided Warbler.
Here he is getting reqady to 'plunge':
It is yellowish on the head and back on into the tail. It has a solid eye ring. It has two prominmante yellowish wing bars. In the Sun, the belly is more white than yellowish. Thhe yellow wing bars and strong eye ring should make this easy, but together they make it hard.
Until someone tells me better I am going with Chestnut-sided Warbler. While it looks nothing like this, the juveniles do. I snapped this bird last year and posted it in the YardCrap Migration Contest. Until someone tells me better, going with that.
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