I was just outside checking out the birdaction in my yard and heard a new bird so I tracked him down... he was in my oak tree. At first I thought it was a Black and White but he didn't look, act or sound right. I was able to spy on him pretty well and for quite a while.

Description: solid black crown/cap, obvious white cheeks, black malar stripe, white/light underneath, darkly striped above, white bars on wings, white undertail coverts, tail shortish, under tail all white except for little black 'corners'. Wings maybe a little longer than the tail?

Vocalisation: high, rather loud, one noted "tseeptseeptseeptseep", pause then "tseeptseeptseeptseep" again. given several times a then silent for a while then repeated

Behaviour: Gleaning in mid level of large pin oak - closer to ends of branchs than trunk. did not creep, did not tip head up like B&W or Nutchatch.  

Talked a lot and seemed pretty active for a bird that is described as 'sluggish', gleaning rather like a chicakdee kind of only not as hyper.. Uh, dare I say it, just like the picture. 


Blackpoll Warbler (m)?  Suggestions for alternatives?
Thanks much
Cathryn Reid
Rosehaven (North Beach) So AA Co


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