About 11 AM this morning I found 3 Orange-crowned Warblers in the brushy
margins of the northwest area of Two Rivers County Park, Benton County, WA.
Two of them were the bright yellow, olive backed kind that I'm familiar
with (probably of the subspecies that Sibley calls "Pacific".) The third
was problematic, as it's body colors and markings were just slightly subtler
shades of the yellow and olive of the other two birds, but its head and neck
were so gray that the bird appeared to have a cape. Very distinctive.
Taiga ? Interior West ? I'm not even going to venture a guess, but
certainly very different from any Orange-crowned Warbler I've seen before.


Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennis.rockwell at gte.net

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