ML647867690

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5th NC record (4th live record). Bright yellow warbler with gray head and broken eye ring. Large pink feet, long bright yellow undertail coverts. Location: 35.373450, -78.017202 and nearby area, almost always in thick scrubby habitat less than 10 ft tall. Large pink feet eliminate Orange-crowned Warbler, though I also observed (a) greater contrast between gray head and yellow body, (b) brighter yellow body/undertail covert coloration, and (c) complete lack of an eye stripe compared to most Orange-crowned Warblers (celata subspecies) I've observed. Broken eye ring plus location/seasonality help eliminate Mourning and Connecticut Warblers (vagrant MacGillivrays are more common than lingering Mourning and Connecticuts on the east coast per the eBird database, which has zero Connecticut records anywhere in the US between Dec-Feb and only three Mourning records, all west of the Appalachians). Stopped by the park on a whim en route to the coast trying to increase my Wayne Co list to 100 or more. Noticed this guy actively foraging within a few minutes of arriving to the park and the first brief looks already had me 99% convinced this was a MacGillivray's, having observed them once before in NC and in six different states out west. Chip note also matched MacGillivray's.