Tom Pendleton and I watched this lovely little bird at Blandy Experimental
Farm today for several minutes about 11:10 a.m. It was alone, and we saw it in
the area you walk through just on the north side of the Quarters building, en
route to that building from the north (main) parking lot. It was unusually
hyperactive, up-front, and almost in-your-face for a warbler, swooping from
tree
to tree and landing in quite visible places but only staying briefly in each
spot--and also darting out and up over the lawn to catch insects in the air.
We also saw it briefly at a little after noon on the west side of the
Quarters area as we drove out; it flew low over the ground in front of us like
a
junco, but it clearly had three white tail feathers on each side and was a
different color gray, and somewhat less squat-appearing. Other than that one
great
bird, we hardly saw any birds at all in Blandy. They all must have been
hunkered down from the stiff wind, if they were there at all.
John Irvine
Harrisonburg, Virginia
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