ML457513791
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🟠 ***Very Rare. Yellow-chested warbler giving away to an olive back, diagnostic black aricular patch bleeding into the lores, yellow supercilium, and black cap. Singing a melodic, sweet-toned, momentus "to-a to-a to-a to-a to-a" song (plus or minus a few syllables) that has a slight descent from the first note. Continuing bird found a week or so ago by Dave Nicosia. Lifer, and well worth the detour on my way back home. Actually, this couldn’t have been a better experience. I was getting worried once I entered Beaver Meadow SF. I don’t like to take my little car on rough state forest roads anymore now that the odometer reads six figures but given that I was less than a mile away I just went for it. I turned down Gibson Taylor Road. Google Maps said to continue 0.5 miles further up the road, but as per prior directions this was more than 700 feet south of the intersection, so I stopped at the bottom of the gully. I turned off my car and immediately heard the Kentucky Warbler sing once with my windows closed. I quickly got out but was disappointed when it didn’t sing again. I had to wait five minutes to hear it sing again, but this time further off to the east away from the road. I had options: leave now with no visuals or wait around until it came back to the roadside. I chose the later since it was a lifer. I waited around another ten or so minutes, hearing it sing once every two minutes or so, still kind of far into the woods to the east. I went back to my car to get a drink of water. Just then, the Kentucky Warbler sang as if it was right above me. It starting singing more consistently from the low greens right next to my car. I put my phone on the hood of my car to record and looked with the utmost concentration for movement in the low foliage. Eventually I saw the bird no more than ten feet away on the ground. I crouched down and got a perfect fifteen second look in small clearing in the brush. It sang, defecated, looked around, then flew further back, never to be seen again, but it kept singing from its hiding spot.
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