Bell's Vireo - Johnny Votta
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Contributor

Date

Location

Edwin B. Forsythe NWR (formerly Brig)
Atlantic, New Jersey, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 39.465, -74.4477778
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

RARE!!! I exited my car to try and get photographs of a male purple finch when a flock of yellow-rumped warblers moved through and I noticed a very bright yellow/almost green bird in the flock. The bird constantly was moving around. I first saw it in the low part of a cedar by the bridge exiting the wildlife drive and the bird made its way back down the wildlife drive and up a taller cedar. My first instinct was that it was a Philadelphia Vireo due to the brightness of the yellow, but this yellow was not on the chest and did not have dark lores. The yellow was rather below the chest all the way to the undertail. A man, who's name I did not get, stopped and looked with me as we tried to determine if it was a Philadelphia or Warbling. It was not until I got back to my apartment and looked into my Sibley guide where I determined it to be a Bell's. The greenish flanks and back led me towards Bell's over Philly/Warbling.

Technical information

Model
Canon EOS REBEL T5
Lens
EF75-300mm f/4-5.6
ISO
640
Focal length
300 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire, auto
f-stop
f/8.0
Shutter speed
1/500 sec
Dimensions
2110 pixels x 1750 pixels
Original file size
1.51 MB