sooty_chicken's Identifications

Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream, closely associated with a Two-lined Salamander. Tail appeared laterally compressed and somewhat keeled in life, more closely approaching the impression in the third photo rather than the first two in-hand photos, where the tail is drooping over the finger and partly obscured

Continuing bird seen since November 25, 2023 at this address. Bird was captured and banded by Dwayne Martin, Tiffany Huffman, and myself and was positively determined to be a juvenile female with 75% grooving still on the bill. It is NC's second record for the species.