Re: [MDOsprey] Dull streaky warbler

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Robin, 
 You should look in the Peterson Warbler Guide for your "streaky warbler". 
The illustrations are much more accurate, especially the fall plumages. There 
are numerous plumages illustrated for the Orange-crowned, as there are 
different sub-species. The written accounts are also very good.
 I find the illustrations in most of the major field guides, for the warblers 
at least, to be at best very mis-leading, and at worst down right wrong (for 
the "confusing fall warblers). All the Tennessees I saw over the weekend 
still resembled sping adults; mostly white below with grayish-blue caps, not 
at all like the fall plumaged pictures in the NGS guide. 

 Based on your description, it sounds like an Orange-crowned.The behavior 
sounds right too.

Rick Sussman
Ashton,MD
Warblerick@aol.com

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