I also stared at a yellow headed, light bodied warbler at around 7:30 this
morning near where describe though it was on the north side of the path. I
could not get a photo of it but wrote several notes. I am pouring through a
couple of field guides but cannot find what I saw.
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Timothy Houghton <thoughton...>wrote:
> I was nearing the end of my time at Cromwell today and was at the "bowl"
> area in the woods behind the house by the path--an instruction area with
> benches. I saw a weird-lookng warbler. The first thing that crossed my mind
> was it was a hybrid of some kind: blue-winged/golden-winged. But no
> pictures I've seen in books or on Google quite capture what I saw of that
> kind of hybrid. The closest thing I could find--and I know it can't be this
> bird--is that of a female hermit warbler. The bird I saw I had a nicely
> yellow head (if there were any distinctive marking, I couldn't see
> them)---not strong yellow, but yellow enough, distinctive. The rest of it
> was a ghostly white and gray--and it had definite white wing bars. I
> thought the hybrid--and I thought maybe female blue-winged, or female
> blackburnian (but no) or young fall female black-throated green (but no).
> Maybe if a brewster's had white wing bars and a more yellow head, that
> would be it. Weird. Any thoughts any one?
>
> Tim Houghton
> (Glen Arm)
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