Was on call for work this weekend, and stuck near home, so no hunting for the Assateague Townsend's Warbler. Got up early to look for the Connecticut Warbler that Dan Haas had found the day before in Anne Arundel County, but no joy there either.
 
So I headed off to Greenbury Point and stumbled on a bird, on the path that curves to the right around and away the Nature Center, that I first took for a Common Yellowthroat. But I soon realized it was not, both in fieldmarks and in GISS. It was a first-year Mourning Warbler, and it gave me decently long looks:  yellow all the way down the lower breast and belly, very bright on the belly; stouter than a COYE with a slightly thicker, straight bill; narrow, broken eye-ring; and brownish edge where the bib would be in an adult.
 
Elsewhere on the Point I ran into a rapidly moving mixed feeding flock, and was able to tick off Chsetnut-sided, Redstart, Parula, and BT Green before they moved on.
 
Good Birding!
Warren and Lisa Strobel
Annapolis, MD
www.birdcouple.com

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