ML647199056

Observation details

sending this out for reviewer evaluation. This was an effort to re-find a bird discovered by D. Bell about a week ago. This bird looked like a good candidate when I first spotted it. Although it's rather plain, its appearance does stand out as something unusual among our usual warbler mix. About all I got in bins was a head-on view: pale overall with light, low-contrast yellow, brown, and white tones, with pale "forehead" (supraloral). After that, I attempted photos, mostly failing. Meanwhile, the bird was foraging slowly near the tips of pine branches, mostly concealed, wiggling the needles and occasionally dislodging some pollen. This photo was near 34.04858, -118.06844 . BUSH, CHSP, and TOWA were in the vicinity. Later, I believe I had a brief glimpse of the bird about halfway between here and the position reported by D. Bell. Silent (no chip calls) as best as I could tell, but 3 TOWA in the area created some vocalization confusion. From the photo (attached as original and also with brightness adjusted): warbler shape with fairly long bill and fairly long tail; 2 wing bars; no obvious streaking; pale under almost all of the visible tail; pink legs. Maybe pale eye arcs visible.