Jennifer and all

For your location the description sounds like a Townsend's Warbler -
yellowish head with black crown stripe, black around the eye, and black
throat, body yellowish-green with white wing bars, lower breast and
upper belly yellow with blackish stripes, and whitish undertail coverts
(area on body under tail). Not surprised you were mesmerized, they are
striking. They are typical birds of the coniferous forest and it is not
unusual for them to overwinter here in the Puget Sound. Really nice
looking birds, hope it shows up again for you.

Keep observing, that is what helps improve your skills.

Good birding at the b&b

Brian H. Bell
Woodinville Wa
bellasoc at isomedia.com

JLScott53 at aol.com wrote:

> At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I'm hoping someone can tell me
> what bird I saw this morning. I should tell you that I'm not really an
> active birder, more of a, let's say, proprietress of a bird
> bed-and-breakfast: most of the birds I see are from my kitchen window.
> Luckily, I live in a place where I get a diverse mix of guests. So
> anyway, this morning I saw a little bird picking at the blueberry
> suet. It looked like a chickadee at first -- it was more or less that
> shape and heft -- but when I got closer I noticed it had a yellow head
> with black stripes. (I know there are a lot of other things about it I
> was supposed to notice but didn't, mesmerized as I was by its pretty
> head.) It was very brave -- didn't even fly away when I opened the
> door to let out the dog. I looked in my Sibley's and decided it must
> be some kind of warbler. Is that right? I've never seen a warbler of
> any kind in the wild before, so I feel pretty clueless.
>
> For what it's worth, I live about a half a mile from what was once a
> beautiful second-growth (?) forest and is now a clearcut wasteland
> where a new housing development is about to be. We've seen a lot of
> unusual visitors lately, not, I think, uncoincidentally (including a
> pileated woodpecker, a Bewick's wren, starlings for the first time,
> some kind of raptor I couldn't ID, and even a flying squirrel). Any
> ideas? What should I look for if the bird comes back?
>
> Jennifer Scott
> Bainbridge Island
> JLScott53 at aol.com


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