Mystery Bird - Another Challenging Bird ID

Описание: One August evening, I encountered a backyard bird unlike any I'd ever seen before in the D.C. area. Was this a rare bird sighting? Perhaps a visitor getting an early start on migration south? Or has this species been in my backyard all this time?

This video is very similar to the one about the Irish corvid I couldn't identify at first:
   • What's This Corvid? A (Very) Long-Distance...  

I apologize for the shakiness and graininess of some of the cell phone footage. I was using 2x or 3x magnification to try to spot plumage details.

💻Best viewed on a large screen (iPad or larger) at the highest available resolution.

Special thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/

Music:
🎶 "Blue Hills" from the Cyberlink music library
🎶 "Hopping Trains" by Nathan Moore
🎶 "Steel and Wood" from the Cyberlink music library

iStock Images and Photos (TBD):
📸 Catbird ~
📸 Loggerhead Shrike ~
📸 Bird silhoutette ~
📸 Illustration of different shrikes ~
📸 Grassland ~
📸 Scream emoji ~
📸 Birdwatchers ~
📸 Owl detective ~
📸 Technical Difficulties test pattern ~
📸 Baby shrike ~

💠 The Suburban Morrigan 💠

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