If you know anyone more guilty of regularly trying to turn an ordinary bird into something fantastic please introduce us.

I have received an opinion from someone that I consider a good authority that the bird I identified as a juvenile Northern Goshawk in my last post is actually a juvenile Sharp Shinned Hawk. 

Jill and I birded upstream from Camp Sherman yesterday and found a nice assortment of birds.  One American Dipper put on a show for us, calling constantly for about 20 minutes. They have a very beautiful voice. We waited and waited but its call was never returned. While standing on the second bridge upstream watching the dipper, we had a small flock of swift fly over.  The coloration of one caught our attention - I tried of course to turn it into a White-throated Swift. But its stubby body and thick, non-angular, wings are telling me that it's an oddly colored Vaux's Swift.

The majority of opinions we've received, however, are that we are looking at an albinistic swallow.

Of course that wasn't enough of a mystery for me for the day - so I tried to turn the Warbling Vireo pictured below into a the red-eyed version. At the end of the day, its pale lores are what convinced me that I was on a fools errand:

Just a few yards away we were treated to nice views of a Cassin's Vireo for comparison:

The last interesting bird for us was a Brown Creeper. It was interesting because we've never seen one that seemed to be looking around - we normally find them very focused on the crevices within the bark of the tree.