OK.

Now this is getting weird.

Today at about three in the afternoon, one of those New Orleans thunderstorms cropped up, and I saw something flapping around on the welcome mat on the sidewalk.  I went out to go investigate, and there was this little guy, soaked to the bone and unable to get any lift because his flight feathers were dripping.  Initially, I thought he was the same little bird who befriended me last week.

I scooped him up and brought him in.  He’s not the same bird.  He’s not even the same species.  He’s about the same size, but a dark gray color, with VERY large, forward-facing eyes, and X-shaped feet.  He’s got a grip like a vise, too.  He didn't want to perch on my finger.  He wanted to hang off the front of my dress. 

He hung out in the gallery long enough to dry his wings off.  Most of the time he stood with them stretched out to the sides, occasionally shaking water off them, but would fold them up whenever I got close.  When the storm passed, I put him outside in the planter, which he climbed to the side of and hung off of like so.

Any birdwatchers able to identify the little guy?  Here's a couple more pictures. 

He seems to have recently left the nest, but doesn't have too many pinfeathers still coming in.  He does have very strangely-shapped tailfeathers, however--there are little needle-like points at the ends of them.  I don't know if this is because he's a juvenile or because they're supposed to be that way.

Oh, and he doesn't make any noise but he can turn that head around backwards, Exorcist-style.