Can someone help ID this bird?

[margo171]

Unfortunately he was backlit, these are the best photos I could get.  Can someone help me ID this bird?   Seen along the NE corner of Bear Creek Park yesterday morning (8/7) in a tree directly above the creek.  A slow chip sound.   

Some thoughts: Indigo Bunting or Lazuli-Indigo Bunting hybrid.  

Thanks.

Margo Constable

[Susan Rosine]

Blue Grosbeak

[David Suddjian]

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It looks like a hybrid Lazuli x Indigo Bunting to me. Blue Grosbeak has a larger bill that falls more in line with the forehead profile, a peaked crown, blue on the undertail coverts, and has more pronounced black at the front of the face. There would be other features if we could see the wings in the photos.

David Suddjian

Littleton, CO

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[Susan Rosine]

I still lean towards immature male Blue Grosbeak, but of course I will defer to the experts!
Susan R.
Thornton, Adams County.

[Joey Angstman]

Juvenile male Blue Grossbeaks are much more tan or brown on their bellies and backs.

Joey Angstman
Fort Collins, CO

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Indigo bunting, possibly with some lazuli genes mixed in.

Arvind Panjabi
Fort Collins

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[margo171]

Thank you all for your input!  The responses as a whole including a couple of outside expert birders I've spoken with are leaning a little more to the hybrid.  

Margo