I have a question for my bird savvy readers.

This is probably just a flash of my imagination adding my favorite color to a bird, but I had a dream last night starring the little guy, so I thought I would share a little. (My dream mind has been active lately! It seems to go in phases.) I’ll try to describe him using my limited knowledge of birds…

I say “he” because I have always been under the impression that male birds where the mostly boldly colors, and he definitely had that going for him. In size and shape, he looked like the typical little chubby pointy beaked bird I would see at my neighbor’s feeder. Small enough to sit in my palm. Beyond that he had the most vivid orange face and throat with some black marks around his face. He had a white tummy and the rest of him was some patterning of black and white. He sounded pretty, so maybe a songbird? Though someone told me recently a crow is a songbird too. I love them but I admit their croaking never struck me as overly melodious. So I am not sure what makes a bird a songbird…

I am thinking maybe I saw him in a book or magazine (or in nature!) at some point, so maybe this is a real bird, or some collage of several. I find all dreams have some grain of truth, so I always like trying to tease that truth out.
At first I thought orioles, the only orange bird I know, but when I looked them up, the patterning looked completely wrong (delightfully orange though) and too big.

It was a happy random dream, maybe just a birthday gift of orange goodness from my subconscious! Speaking of which, thank you all for the birthday wishes so far, I am feeling the fellow blogger love!

EDIT #1: I have been surfing “orange bird” on google images and found this, a little bit creepy but I totally love it.

EDIT #2: We have a winner! It looks exactly like it (my subconscious has a good memory!)

This is a Blackburnian Warbler. He is a yellower here then in my dream but hey, otherwise an exact match! Cute little guy isn’t he?