ML466752921
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Observation details
Amazing! Female seen in dense balsam fir, white spruce, and red spruce forest. Fairly large warbler with white flashes in tail seen in flight and when agitated. Eyeline behind the eye, yellow wash across breast, flanks, cheeks and a spur of clean feathers extending up behind the cheek. Very fine, but distinct, black streaks across breast and flanks as well. Did not check the wings for a wing patch/bar because I was already confident in my ID. Extent of streaking and general long, large-bodied silhouette, along with call notes helped differentiate this bird from a female Blackburnian Warbler. Bay-breasted is the only other warbler with this sort of “spurred” facial pattern with a patch of color extending up from the breast onto the neck of the bird behind the eye. Fairly long and pointy bill. Initially heard calling in response to pishing, viewed, recorded, and photographed later. I followed this bird for some time, hoping to come across a mate or other signs of breeding. I heard a series of harsh chips that were certainly a begging call from multiple birds. I located these same begging calls at multiple locations, but they were slightly too quick and high-pitched for me to pin point a location in the dense conifers. I would pish at these sites hoping to draw out a juvenile bird or a parent, but each time the female Cape May would begin aggressively calling and appear. That being said, a male Blackburnian Warbler was also located in the vicinity of the juvenile calls.
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- Original file size
- 5.24 MB