ML634411934

Observation details

Continuing find by Rob Curtis! Larger skulking warbler species with yellow underside, bright pink legs, olive upperwings with black tips to flight feathers, black under eye dripping down like sideburns, black crown with gray coloring interspersed. Foraging inside forbidden zone before walking out to the native plantings. Did not sing once around me and did not use playback to lure. My most sought after post Big Year Cook County bird! Having chased this species multiple times in '24 with no success, I made it my morning mission to refind Rob's discovery. Word spread that Rob Curtis observed a KEWA waltz into the Forbidden Zone around 6:40am. After circling the location for 30 minutes, I spotted it near the fence along the lakeside only a couple feet away from me! It walked and hopped around the edge of the FZ until scurrying into the native plantings to presumably forage in a different spot. I was floored by the jaw-dropping views of this typically secretive warbler. It behaved equally as confiding as my WEWA only a couple weeks ago. Cook #310!!!