ML618454515
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Observation details
Continuing from 5/2; discovered by Tom W. Thanks, Tom!! :)) Similar-looking to a Solitary Vireo, but chunky and dipped in yellow; olive green hood that continues down to its upper mantle, along its shoulders, and on the side of its upper chest; yellow spectacles; yellow throat that extends down to its belly; white lower parts, including its undertail and coverts; absence of yellowing on the vent and flanks; thick, dark gray bill and legs; black inner mouth; large, black eyes made apparent in contrast with its yellow spectacles; bold white wingbars; tertials and secondary edges seem to lack any yellowing/olive coloration; gray rump. 0940 to 1025 – I heard a Vireo singing from the parking lot as I was deep in the NE section of the riparian. I quickly ran back to the lot, in hopes that another birder wasn’t playing a callback on a speaker, to luckily discover that I was alone, standing in front of a tall Sycamore in the SW corner of the lower parking lot (33.645727, -117.941199), listening to a beautiful song, transmitting from the highest point. I was able to track a mixed flock in the same tree, but no visual on what Merlin ID was picking up as “Yellow-throated Vireo”. After, a couple minutes of singing, the silence settled in, but soon after, a passerine catapulted out from the section of the tree I kept hearing the song and into the top of an Oak tree, on the other side of the parking lot (33.6463095, -117.9413790). Fortunately, it sang again, allowing me to track it, deep in the Oak. Luckily, I was joined by Caleb as we tracked it move along the adjacent Oaks. Once it stopped singing, it would bounce around inside the canopy, gleaning off the leaves, periodically serenading us. It was unbothered by any other birds, apart from a nearby Black-throated Gray, who was in the same tree, who yelled at it a few times; but thankfully, no physical altercation was witnessed by us. Continued to sing, bounce, forage, and check its surroundings, until it was done with the Oaks and proceeded NW into the Eucs, disappearing for about 15 minutes. But luckily on my way out, it came back into the parking lot, singing in the Oaks once more, allowing me to say my ‘good-byes’. :))
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- Original file size
- 1.25 MB