I return with the bird photo, I hope.

Think you for your help. I hope the unidentified bird photo will follow. This one I resized with "Elements".

Looks maybe like a female cowbird, just judging by the color and the beak.

Yep, that's my guess too. Beak looks right and so does coloration from what I can tell. Nice shot.

looks like a cowbird to me as well. I try to love all of my avian friends but this one has had a dramatic negative affect on the population of song birds in our neck of the Rockies. Their eggs are placed in the nests of song birds and the song birds eggs are removed. What happens is that the song birds nurture the baby cowbirds as their own. Results= more cowbirds and less song birds. At first I did not believe this was true but over the years, I have observed this first hand.

Your image is quite handsome though.

Thank You for your responses, Gentlemen, I can see, now, that you are right. I think the beak threw me off. Thanks, again, I learn a great deal from all the responses, which I read mostly everyday even though I do not participate directly that often. The information is very helpful to me. Joe

Actually, it is a pteyahpa ("buffalo bird" - literally: "buffalo scared-up" in the language of the Lakota/Dakota people) which species later changed it affinities to to the range environs of domestic cattle, whence is got saddled with its nonce title of "cowbird"...certainly a comedown in status, I'd say.
(Just a South Dakota perspective...)
Dave Graham
Estelline (in East River), South Dakota