Spotting

Hi James. Mockingbird certainly matches your noisy description and the tail length! My experience with them is they can be bold and move around a LOT - changing perches. Your first photo provides a great clue: the tip of the tail is double rounded. That makes me think of kingbird, gnatcatchers, flycatchers, parula... If this link works you can see species reported at this location. You can change month/year range to suit. http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L452007?m.... Hope that helps!

Laura, I appreciate your help. This was indeed a wild bird at local wetlands in Christmas in Central Florida. I was leaning towards a Northern Mockingbird but something is not sitting right with me on that. Especially facial features in second picture. I am a little perplexed

MrsPbio I am afraid the pictures are all I have, it was in shadow in tree at some distance and I cannot say if sunlight affected look of bird

Is your bird wild, or captive? I ask because we use range as an important part of IDing species. And in fact a problem with IDing species as Western Kingbird... is range. Western Kingbirds are typically out west, and in the southern tip of Florida (vs. Orlando)… :(

Can you describe the colors a bit? I can't tell if that yellow is the belly or sunshine.