ML603512991
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Observation details
After my Pika interaction, I continued down the trail to the trees where I heard MacGill's chip earlier. I expected it to have left by then, having a reputation of such a skulking warbler and all. Shockingly, I heard it chipping again from the same exact pines. I took a closer look and in a quick flash I saw a Pink-sided Junco with its darker hood and lighter body before it hopped to another tree. Thinking I had mistakened a junco’s call notes for a MacGillivray’s Warbler earlier, I began slowly walking back on the trail. I don’t know what possessed me to double-check, maybe it was the thicker consistency of the chip call reminding me of no other junco, but whatever it was I returned to the spot I saw the junco from. With utter disbelief, I turned around and saw the same blue-grey head but with a brighter yellow body. The MacGillivray’s Warbler actively moved around in the trees, nothing like any skulking warbler I have ever seen. Off the three-inch camera monitor, I saw its famously diagnostic white eye-arcs above and below its eyes. I would never have expected to spot a MacGillivray’s Warbler foraging so actively while merily chipping for a long while.
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- Original file size
- 2 MB