As I might have said before, I think they should outlaw the use of the word “common” in the common names of birds. It invariably does the bird that wears it an injustice. Take the Common Yellowthroat. Who looks at a Common Yellowthroat? I mean they are so common. It would clearly be a more interesting bird, and more worthy of our notice every time we see it, if it were only the “Masked Yellowthroat”, or the “Bandito Yellowthroat” or even the “Black-faced Yellowthroat.” Because it is definitely worth a look every time we see one. Such a striking little bird, caught here skulking below the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in Ohio during the recent Biggest Week in American Birding.

Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 600mm equivalent. Shutter preferred. 1 /640th @ ISO 1600 @ f7.1. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet.