[TN-Bird] Re: Mystery warbler
- From: "Dan and Laurie Mooney" <birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "TNBIRDS" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:25:07 -0400
After several helpful replies and some sleep, l feel fairly confident that the
bird is a hatch year male common yellowthroat. The plumage is a good match.
While observing the bird, it seemed larger, less chuncky, the bill was too
long...it just didn't have the right shape for a common yellowthroat.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan and Laurie Mooney
To: TNBIRDS
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Mystery warbler
We get a fair number of 'confusing fall warblers' in our yard each year.
The water feature we installed 6 years ago generally lets us get pretty good
looks so that we can identify 99% of what shows up. Today we had a visitor I
do not recognize. It may well be a first fall Kentucky warbler, but some of
the field marks are absent. I did manage to get a few pictures of the bird.
They can be seen at: http://www.birdnerds.com/Yardbirds/uknwarbler/index.htm
These are photos straight from the camera, not cropped or edited in any way.
The lack of yellow in the lores, supercilium, and around and behind the eyes
bothers me. The amount of black and gray above the eye is also bothersome. A
few of the pictures also show a brown crown patch.
Confused in Knoxville
Dan Mooney
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