Prothonotary warbler.
I’ve never in my life heard of that bird.
Very cute. Shocking yellow. High pitched whistle.
Had 3 individuals I could see.
Had a close encounter with a Veery (8 feet on a trail), after hearing one of them singing their eerie song.
I saw a female Nuttall’s woodpecker on the suet feeder a little while ago. And some house finches on the regular feeder, but they’re there every day.
I drove to a local nature preserve to take a walk this morning and saw a Baltimore oriole. I’d never seen one before around here (southwest suburbs of Chicago) so that was pretty neat.
One of my favorite bird songs!!
I saw a bald eagle on Saturday afternoon! So majestic.
I determined that the bird who wakes me up before dawn is the humble American Robin. They can be amazingly loud.
On the advice of a friend, my wife and I downloaded a free bird/bird call identification app a few months ago:
We used it at first in the back yard and got the expected variety of birds typically found in suburban environments: sparrows, robins, starlings, bluejays, cardinals and the like. However, once we took it out on some the nature trails in the area it identified all kinds of birds that you don’t see everyday, and some of which I’ve never even of heard of before. When you see interesting bird calls identified like: Hermit Thrush, Belted Kingfisher, and Scarlet Tanager, you know you’ve hit paydirt.
The Scarlet Tanagers are so pretty.
I was waiting to go in a place in a busy parking lot and got the ID on because I was hearing an unfamiliar bird song.
It was a American Redstart.
I heard an Orchard Oriole for the first time yesterday afternoon. A cute little warble sound.
And persistent. The one here often sings 2-3 hours before sunrise-I don’t mind. He does, as I keep unintentionally scaring him coming around a tree or bush, and when I got too close to his mate he flew up into a tree and glared at me.
Merlin tells me that the adorable peeping birds are actually blue-gray gnatcatchers! Spiffy.
Also saw a couple of bluebirds flitting around yesterday.
This morning’s fun new bird: a Yellow-breasted Chat.
Drizzle and generally cooler weather have reduced the bird count today. However I did hear one beautiful long trill that turned out to be from a Worm-eating Warbler.
Kind of an unfortunate name, it seems to me. Some get to be a Great Crested Flycatcher, a Ruby- crowned Kinglet, a Northern Flicker, an Orchard Oriole or even a Song Sparrow. But get caught eating one worm, and you get tagged as a Worm-eating Warbler for all time.
I’m in south eastern Australia, and we don’t get so much ‘birdsong’ as cacophonous screeching from the various natives. On any given day we get:
Magpies, magpie larks, sulfur-crested cockatoos, corellas, crested doves, currawongs, rosellas and parakeets, plovers and of course, the ever-present white ibis (aka, bin chicken in Aussie vernacular).
The magpie’s warble is a delight to hear, but the others? Not so much. 
As an expat, the one I miss most is the currawong. Do you not hear them?
I got drawn into Merlin about 2.5 years ago and am addicted. My current year list as of 5/22 is 200 species. I do spend a LOT of time listening, but my ability to use binoculars is very limited. I have tried monoculars with no success, but just hearing the sounds is a lot of fun.
And as I re-read Kambucta I see currawongs are listed. Sorry.
NE MN - Last evening, I heard a very long and complicated birdsong. I saw the bird, but couldn’t identify it from where I was sitting. It was small and mostly brown. I didn’t think of Merlin until it was too late. I hope the bird returns today. I’ve never heard such a song! If I hadn’t seen the bird, I would have thought it was two or three different birds.
Brown Thrasher? I heard one today — I thought it was a mockingbird at first. They apparently have the most varied song of any bird in my area.
Wait — no, your bird was small. Thrashers are big. Sorry, don’t know! Wren songs tend to be pretty long, with lots of doubled notes. But…???