This little cutie was singing its lungs out in a tree on Juanita Bay in early April. It’s drove me crazy. I couldn’t figure out what it was. From this angle and distance, it looks like about ten billion different birds and doesn’t sound like any of them. But I’m sure one of you, my darlings, will know what we’ve got!

That’s the cropped version, so the birdie looks a bit closer than it actually was. Here’s perspective:

And we have video! With birdie songs!

You’ll laugh at me now, I know (if you weren’t earlier). It’s a common bird, but I went through the songs of dozens of local birds, and none of them matched. Bunches of birdies seem to look like it. Argh. I should have just waited for you lot, but I needed a distraction since my SD card broke right before I could get our Snoqualmie Falls photos off of it. Gah. Finally, I figured it out, and victory was mine! I’ll bet you got it in a second, didn’t ya?

I’m so hopeless with birds. But they’re still fun to film.