Here’s a double photo quiz – your only clues are that they were taken on April 2nd in northern Illinois…
These are what we refer to as “burst rejects” – the load of pictures you get with a digital camera, set on burst, to catch a moving bird. (The second picture is mostly bad lighting and poor angle.)
Hmmm, yellow-rumped warbler?
It is a golden-crowned kinglet.
They are two different birds…
The top is the GC Kinglet and the bottom is a BG gnatcatcher. I think.
Top one is for sure a Golden-crowned Kinglet but need to continue looking at the second picture!
Tim is correct. The top picture is a Golden-crowned Kinglet and the bottom is a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (early for them in N. Illinois)