Hello again,

Thanks so much to the terrific Tweeters instant-responders! The unanimous
consensus so far is that the first bird is the same orange-crowned warbler
as in the other two photos, and that the dark stripes I got so excited about
are actually just shadows.

So now I'm a little embarrassed...but live and learn!
Cheers,
Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattle


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From: Trileigh Tucker <tri at seattleu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:21:54 -0700
To: "tweeters at u.washington.edu" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Conversation: Warbler ID help?
Subject: Warbler ID help?

Hello Tweets,

On this finally-sunny morning, I was out taking pictures and some flitting
in an ocean spray caught my eye. I thought I was taking several photos of
the same bird, but when I downloaded them, I was surprised - the second two
photos look to me like an orange-crowned warbler, but the first one looks
clearly different.

First photo: www.flickr.com/photos/trileigh/3653892519/
Second photos (orange-crowned warbler?) follow that in the set.

I'm not a warbler expert, but my guess would ordinarily have been that the
first one is a Townsend's Warbler - but the eye is not within a dark stripe
like all the photos in Sibley's show. Perhaps the eye surrounded by yellow
is just a typical variation I'm not used to?

Would love your helpful feedback - many thanks.

Good birding,
Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattle

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