ML349607071
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Observation details
Initially started singing around 7am. Loosely paired notes with a clear but slightly burry quality using phrasing such as "three-eight", "up-here", and "see-you". Sang intermittently until around 10am and not seen or heard thereafter. Owing to the clear and sunny conditions got reasonably good views of the bird mostly high up in the trees. Small passerine. Dingy white underparts. Tail was dark gray and notably short in proportion to the body. Wings were similarly dark gray but with olive tint to edges of primaries and secondaries. The head had a gray crown subtended by a whitish supercilium. The edges of the gray crown along the supercilium had a thin darker gray pinline. A dusky ocular line ran from the gape through the eye to the back of the auriculars. The cheek was weakly washed with gray. The sides of the neck had an olive wash. Bill was thin and long with a gray upper mandible and a lower mandible that was grayish at the distal end but appeared to have more of a flesh hue at the base. Eyes were a dull red or maroon color. Overall a very drab and colorless individual. Given the rarity of Red-eyed Vireos in spring I think this is the same bird which was here May 28-29 last year. Although off by 2 weeks from last year, this bird foraged in exactly the same trees as the one seen here last year. The song was not nearly as loud and audible as last year's bird but just the same it only sang until mid morning.
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