Help with Bird Identification

[HL45]

Eastern, Western or Mountain Bluebird? I haven't seen this bird at the feeders, spotted it taking a bath out in the yard.
According to my searches only the eastern bluebird lives in my area.
I wish the bird would have turned toward me but that didn't happen.
What do you think?


untitled shoot-061 by mtw2118, on Flickr


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untitled shoot-080 by mtw2118, on Flickr

 

[David444]

Blue Grosbeak

 

[Aloicious]

It looks a little more like an Indigo Bunting to me:
Indigo Bunting, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

eastern and western bluebirds have a red hue chest, the mountain bluebird has a white chest, although its hard to see in the pics, I don't see evidence of any of those in your pics.

 

[sm4him]

Looks more like a Blue Indigo Bunting to me. The Blue Grosbeaks usually have a little more red coloration in their wings, and are bigger than it LOOKS like that one is.

Interesting though, because it's kinda early in the year for EITHER of those birds in Arkansas.

EDIT: Ninja'd again. But yeah, I'm heavily in favor of it being an Indigo Bunting.

 

[HL45]

Ok, looking at those I'm gonna go with the Indigo Bunting

Compare this ^ to my first shot.


Thanks

 

[sm4him]

^ Yes, that one is *definitely* an Indigo Bunting!

Nice pics, by the way!

 

[480sparky76 75]

Indigo bunting all day long.

 

[HL45]

Looks more like a Blue Indigo Bunting to me. The Blue Grosbeaks usually have a little more red coloration in their wings, and are bigger than it LOOKS like that one is.

Interesting though, because it's kinda early in the year for EITHER of those birds in Arkansas.

EDIT: Ninja'd again. But yeah, I'm heavily in favor of it being an Indigo Bunting.

Thanks! speaking of early, on March 27th I was shooting the feeders and saw a green blur as I snapped this


_1-201 by mtw2118, on Flickr

Didn't know what it was till I got the images in the computer!
We now have the hummingbird feeders going!