ML34363431
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Quite the surprise. While sifting through flock of mostly Wilson's Warblers I noticed a yellow warbler with a black eye-line. Appeared slightly smaller than a Yellow Warbler. Bright citrus-yellow underparts and head with the aforementioned black line through the eye and lores forming a thin mask. Mask was thicker in the lores and tapered to a point behind the eye. Thin pointed bill had a flesh colored lower mandible which became duskier at the tip. The upper mandible also appeared a dusky flesh color (though since the bird was usually above us it was difficult to discern the color of the upper mandible with certainty). The vent was pearly white, as were the outer three retrices on either side of the tail (which it occasionally splayed). The unsplayed tail was mostly white with gray outer corners (visible in my photos). The hind-crown, nape, and back were a yellow-green. Wings were bluish-gray with two whitish wing bars. Seen foraging in the stream crossing immediately west (up-stream) from the Stone Cistern/Old Orchard (area where the Black-capped Gnatcatcher had been found a few weeks prior). I believe this is a second county record (the first coincidentally enough being this spring (2016) found by Rose Ann Rowlett, Narca Moore-Craig, and Alan Craig).
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 20D
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 1335 pixels x 939 pixels
- Original file size
- 261.99 KB